fossick
(en)
(verb) to search for gold or gemstones typically by picking over abandoned workings / (verb) to search about; rummage / (verb) to search for by or as if by rummaging; ferret out
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fossick
It does a writer as talented as Hollinghurst few favours to be fossicking in fustian in this way
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