Usually means: Gold seekers from 1849 California.
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  1. forty-niners: Merriam-Webster
  2. forty-niners, forty-niners: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Forty-Niners, Forty-niners, forty-niners: Wordnik
  4. forty-niners: Wiktionary
  5. forty-niners: Dictionary.com
  6. Forty-niners, The Forty-Niners: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Forty-niners: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. forty-niners: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Forty-niner)

noun:  Alternative form of 49er (in various senses) [(nautical) A class of two-handed double-trapeze dinghy (from its maximum length of 16 feet, approx. 4900 millimetres).]
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