[Ads-l] to metal detect

[Jonathan Lighter]

 2017 _Curse of Oak Island_ (History Channel TV) (Jan. 17):
"They went down there, they metal detected, they tried to repeat the metal
detection."

'To detect metal successfully through use of a metal detector.'

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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