Mining for gold by means of drifts in the gravel and detritus of old riverbeds.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dry-salt

simple past tense and past participle of dry-salt

present participle of dry-salt

(transitive) To cure (meat) by salting and drying it.

Lightning strikes that occur when there is no rain, thus a common cause of bushfires or forest fires.

(medicine, archaic) The process of cupping (drawing blood by partial vacuum) without previous scarification.

(historical) A design burnt into lime or other wood with a poker.

plural of storm drum

A canvas cylinder extended on a hoop, hoisted in conjunction with the storm cone as a storm signal.