Definition of "gold-diggings" [gold-diggings]

• Any region where gold-bearing sands and gravel abound and where gold is being exploited by digging and washing: sometimes also applied to the mining of gold-bearing quartz.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "You were the Burning Daylight of the gold-diggings, the daring traveler and miner."
• "We went outside of a rocky point, and sure enough here was the first Australian gold-diggings in full blast."
• "It was one of the disagreeable things which he had had to do before he could get away to the gold-diggings, and it was done."