Definition of Run-of-the-mine

1. Adjective. Not special in any way. "A unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"

Exact synonyms: Mine Run, Run-of-the-mill, Unexceptional
Similar to: Ordinary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Run-of-the-mine

rumrunners
rums
rumseller
rumsellers
run
run-and-gun
run-away
run-aways
run-down
run-ins
run-length encoding
run-length encodings
run-o'-the-mill
run-of-the-mill
run-of-the-mine (current term)
run-off
run-on
run-on sentence
run-on sentences
run-ons
run-resistant
run-through
run-time
run-time error
run-up
run-ups
run a bath
run a mile
run a red light

Literary usage of Run-of-the-mine

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

1. Mining Rights on the Public Domain: Lode and Placer Claims, Tunnels, Mill by Robert Stewart Morrison (1908)
"... ore of a certain mine entitles the buyer to the run of the mine although the ore tendered from another mine was not below the agreed assay.—Globe Co. v. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Accepting this as the true basis for marketing the coal, however, the evidence satisfies us that run of the mine coal from the mines of plaintiff would ..."

3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1905)
"... coal was mined and loaded on the cars for $1.75 per ton for clean coal, $1.25 for " run of the mine " and 50 to 75 cents for slack. ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1896)
"These better-grade ores will run from $5 to $7 per ton, assay value, while the average run of the mine is in the vicinity of $3. The fineness of the gold is ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"The length of track required for a single day's run of the mine can be determined by dividing the daily output by the average capacity of a railroad car, ..."

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