klondyker

/ ˈklɒnˌdaɪkə /

noun

1. an East European factory ship

Word History and Origins

Origin of klondyker¹

C20: from the gold miners who took part in the 19th-century gold rush to the Klondike

Example Sentences

"I ain't," said another with a dazed expression—a Klondyker carrying home his frying-pan, the one thing, apparently, saved out of the wreck.

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"Pretty sort o' Klondyker you are—go and get nearly drowned first day out!"

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The Boy frowned a little, but rested his pack against the table in that way in which the Klondyker learns to make a chair-back of his burden.

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They gathered at the docks and told one another they wouldn't leave Dawson for fifty thousand dollars, then looked at the "failures" with home-sick eyes, remembering those months before the luckiest Klondyker could hear from the world outside.

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They had failed, but it could never be said of a Klondyker that he had not tried.

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