rusher
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈrʌʃər/
- Archaic
:
buscador de oro
- Thousands of gold rushers converge in Dawson City!
- gold rushers
Examples
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Narrator 2: Three gold rushers from a neighboring tent came out and watched as Hal and Charlie tried to pile the sled with about five times as much cargo as it would hold.
Fiction book (2000) -
Gold rusher 1
Fiction book (2000) -
Up over a city where the gold rushers had thronged a century and a half earlier in quest of instant wealth.
Fiction book (2002) -
Lake Nicaragua, the largest in Central America, once served as an important waterway for transporting gold rushers from the east coast of the United States to California.
Blog text (14) -
After heading into the half 3-3, Harvard broke open a 10-point lead with an early field goal and then took a 13-3 advantage when Chapple looked left and then broke right, outrunning a pair of rushers to turn the corner and head into the end zone.
Blog text (6) -
Thousands of rushers flocked to the gold mines in search of fortune.
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In the 1800s, many rushers traveled west to California during the gold rush, hoping to strike it rich.
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The town was filled with rushers eager to find their fortunes in the new gold discoveries.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rusher comes from the word rush, as in a 'gold rush' when many people move quickly to a new place. A rusher is someone who joins that sudden movement to seek work or wealth, so the name shows they are part of a fast migration.