Definition of "shicer" []

• An unproductive mine; a duffer. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "A 'shicer' is first a mining claim which turns out to be useless, and then anything that does so."
• "Staggering home to the tent after nightfall he would have been sure, sooner or later, to fall into a dry shicer and break his neck, or into a wet one and be drowned."
• "“A reg-lar ol’ shicer!” was the unanimous opinion, expressed without scruple."