See Also: proteid(medicine)
proteid(dictionary)

Klondike (iou) and proteid (iou)


Klondike (iou)



Klondike noun & verb. Also Klondyke. L19.
[A region and river in the Yukon, NW Canada, the scene of a gold-rush in the years following 1896; a name also given to a herring fishery off the west coast of Scotland.]
A. noun.
A source of valuable material or of wealth. L19.
Cards. A variety of patience. N. Amer. E20.
b. verb trans. Also klondike. Export (fish, esp. mackerel or herring) while fresh, freq. to a foreign factory ship. Chiefly Scot. E20.
Klondiker noun (a) a prospector in the Klondike; (b) (chiefly Scot.) an exporter of or dealer in fresh fish, esp. mackerel or herring; a ship used for exporting fresh fish: L19.

proteid (iou)



proteid noun. Now rare or obsolete. L19.
[from PROTEIN + -ID5.]
Chemistry. = PROTEIN.