jerk water , gozen

[Mullins, Bill]

And "gossan"/"gozan" do appear in OED as well. I just wasn't clever enough to check variant spellings the first time around.

"Gossan" is also moderately prevalent in Nevada cites from N'Archive, and is in the Colorado and Utah Historical Newspaper Databases.  I couldn't find "gozzan" or "gozan" in any of those, however.

 
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>"Gossan"/"gozzan" appears in MW3: "decomposed rock or vein material of
>reddish or rusty color resulting from oxidized pyrites called also _iron
>hat_"; etymology given as Cornish from a word meaning 'blood'.
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