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Miner definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MI'NER, n. One that digs for metals and other fossils.
1. One who digs canals or passages under the walls of a fort, etc. Armies have sappers and miners.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: laborer who works in a mine [syn: miner, mineworker]

Merriam Webster's

noun see mine IV

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who works in a mine. 2 any burrowing insect or grub. Phrases and idioms: miner's right Austral. a licence to dig for gold etc. on private or public land. Etymology: ME f. OF min{euml}or, minour (as MINE(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Miner Min"er, n. [Cf. F. mineur.] 1. One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies. (b) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula). Miner's elbow (Med.), a swelling on the black of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon; -- so called because of frequent occurrence in miners. Miner's inch, in hydraulic mining, the amount of water flowing under a given pressure in a given time through a hole one inch in diameter. It is a unit for measuring the quantity of water supplied.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(miners) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. A miner is a person who works underground in mines in order to obtain minerals such as coal, diamonds, or gold. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

butty, collier, desert rat, digger, dredge, dredger, driller, excavator, gold digger, gold miner, gold panner, groundhog, mineworker, navvy, prospector, sandhog, sapper, sourdough, steam shovel, tunneler