forty-niner

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forty-niner - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Forty-niner \For`ty-nin"er\, n.
     One the miners who took part in the California gold rush in
     1849; an argonaut. [Colloq., U. S.]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

forty-niner - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  forty-niner
      n 1: a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849