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Definition of Gold miner
1. Noun. A miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field.
Specialized synonyms: Forty-niner
Generic synonyms: Miner, Mineworker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gold Miner
Literary usage of Gold miner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Underground: Gambling and Its Horrors. by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"THE AUTHOR AS A gold miner. — HOW HE WORKED THE ROCKER. —HARRY AND HIS TIN DIPPER.
— DISAPPOINTMENT AND DINNER. — VICISSITUDES OF GOLD MINING. ..."
2. Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences by Oscar Tully Shuck (1889)
"King & Co., in New York City—Judge Alexander's Popularity—A gold miner in
Calaveras—In the Schools of Sacramento— District Attorney and Superior Judge—A ..."
3. Practical Problems in Banking and Currency: Being a Number of Selected by Walter Henry Hull (1907)
"Curiously enough, the gold miner is more interested in prices, though not
consciously, than any other purchaser. He is interested in all prices, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"Crossing over the Fraser, and advancing still further to the north, the gold-miner
is now at work on the various tributaries of the Peace River—one of those ..."
5. A Frontiersman by Roger Pocock (1903)
"drink with the bar-tender, then tramped off on the Trail of the gold miner,'
leaving behind us a little cluster of log-cabins where nothing has ever ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1884)
"But although Mount Cook stands yet scatheless, the jet of water from the nozzle
of the gold-miner's simple hydraulic apparatus is eating shrewdly into banks ..."
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