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Definition of Miner

1. Noun. Laborer who works in a mine.

Definition of Miner

1. n. 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.

Definition of Miner

1. Noun. A person who works in a mine. ¹

2. Noun. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives. ¹

3. Noun. Any of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus ''Manorina''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Miner

1. one that mines [n -S] - See also: mines

Medical Definition of Miner

1. 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. Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies. The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula). Miner's elbow, 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. Origin: Cf. F. Mineur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Miner

Literary usage of Miner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1883)
"ALONZO A. miner, DD, LL.D. In the wars between France and England to which belongs the renown of Cressy and Poictiers, the English sovereigns accepted such ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"This letter was presented by Mr. miner to Mr. Corwin on the 1st of November, 1850. On the same day, Mr. Corwin wrote to Mr. miner the following letter. ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Under Code 1919, f 1840, providing that an inexperienced coal miner shall work under direction of a foreman, or other experienced worker, until he has had ..."

4. Catalogue by Rehoboth, Mass Blanding Library, Blanding Library, Newmarket Public Library, Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), Nevada. University, Rehoboth (Mass.) (1902)
"John J. miner Virginia City James, John Henry miner Virginia City McCarthy, ... Virginia City Young, John miner Virginia City Zabel, Henry E. miner Virginia ..."

5. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"It was February when the printer-pilot-miner arrived in Aurora, that rough, ... Bob Rowland joined them presently, and later an experienced miner, ..."

6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1874)
"miner. on a failure to enter the writ. No particular formality is required ; it is enough if the fact of the service of the writ ifl alleged and the writ ..."

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