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forty-niner
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for·ty-nin·er (fôrt-nnr)
n.
One who took part in the 1849 California gold rush.
forty-niner
n
(Historical Terms) (sometimes capital) US history a prospector who took part in the California gold rush of 1849
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Noun1.forty-ninerforty-niner - a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849
gold digger, gold miner, gold panner - a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field


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The site, once a shipyard, is reclaimed land incorporating hulks of ships abandoned by the Forty-niners rushing inland for gold.
Public image: expansion of a leading advertising agency is another ... by McGuire, Penny / The Architectural Review
Freeman, 58, died Tuesday at his Pearblossom home, where he had nearly completed a book about the trunk and the back-country treks that led to it - including two furtive excursions across Nevada's nuclear test range - tracing the route of the lost forty-niners who were the first whites to stumble into Death Valley.
OBITUARY FREEMAN, TRACED LOST '49ERS' ROUTE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Upon returning home and kissing his cow, Jasper is quite happy to wave good luck to the continuing stream of westward-bound forty-niners.
Gold Fever; by Bush, Margaret A. / The Horn Book Magazine
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