Forty-niner

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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