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speck
verb- to search for gold or opal on the surface of the ground AUSTRALIA, 1888
- He had gone specking for gold[.] — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 46, 1959
- to place a highly speculative bet on a horse AUSTRALIA
- Mr Phillips, however, had no connection with the Bravo stable and merely “specked” the horse for the sake of the odds. — Maurice Cavanough and Meurig Davies, Cup Day, p. 77, 1960
- I specked him at long odds. — Jack Hibberd and Garrie Hutchinson, The Barracker’s Bible, p. 190, 1984
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