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Maybe a repeat, search was too difficult. I was readiing biography of Georg Bauer, aka Agricola, and it mentioned he wrote a book De Re Focillium. The first meani;ng of "fossil" is anything dug out of a "fossa" - get it? Restriction ot ancient bones etc, came much later.
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fossaThanks, Doc! That's somethin' I never knew all these fossiliferous years of paleontologisizing! from the AHD: fossa SYLLABICATION: fos·sa PRONUNCIATION: fs NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. fos·sae (fs) Anatomy A small cavity or depression, as in a bone. ETYMOLOGY: Latin, ditch, from feminine past participle of fodere, to dig. OTHER FORMS: fossate (fst) —ADJECTIVE
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You're in the army now, You're not behind a plow; You'll never get rich, Diggin a ditch You son-of-a-bitch, You're in the army now
And "foss" = "fossa" = ditch, trench!
fosse or foss n. 5ME < OFr < L fossa < fossa (terra), dug (earth) < fossus: see FOSSIL6 a ditch or moat, esp. one used in fortifications
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