'Miner' definitions:
Definition of 'miner'
From: WordNet
noun
Laborer who works in a mine [syn: miner, mineworker]
Definition of 'Miner'
From: GCIDE
- Miner \Min"er\, n. [Cf. F. mineur.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (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). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'miner'
From: 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
Miner, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Miner, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000) :
1056
Housing Units (2000) :
442
Land area (2000) :
4.100342 sq. miles (10.619837 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.002709 sq. miles (0.007015 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
4.103051 sq. miles (10.626852 sq. km)
FIPS code :
48656
Located within :
Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location :
36.892082 N, 89.535861 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Miner -- U.S. County in South Dakota
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Miner -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000) :
2884
Housing Units (2000) :
1408
Land area (2000) :
570.336145 sq. miles (1477.163771 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
1.650350 sq. miles (4.274386 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
571.986495 sq. miles (1481.438157 sq. km)
Located within :
South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location :
44.022071 N, 97.600049 W
Words containing 'Miner'
- Mineral,
- Mineralization,
- Mineralize,
- Mineralized,
- Mineralizer,
- Mineralizing,
- minerals,
- Bezoar mineral,
- Chameleon mineral,
- Dutch mineral,
- Ethiops mineral,
- Green mineral,
- Kermes mineral,
- Leaf miner,
- Miner County,
- Miner's elbow,
- Miner's inch,
- Miner, MO,
- Miner, SD,
- Mineral City,
- Mineral County,
- Mineral Hills,
- Mineral Point,
- Mineral Ridge,
- Mineral Springs,
- Mineral Wells,
- Mineral acids,
- Mineral blue,
- Mineral candle,
- Mineral caoutchouc,
- Mineral chameleon,
- Mineral charcoal,
- Mineral cotton,
- Mineral green,
- Mineral kingdom,
- Mineral oil,
- Mineral paint,
- Mineral patch,
- Mineral pitch,
- Mineral right,
- Mineral salt,
- Mineral tallow,
- Mineral tar,
- Mineral water,
- Mineral wax,
- Mineral wool,
- Mineral, CA,
- Mineral, CO,
- Mineral, IL,
- Mineral, MT,
- Mineral, NV,
- Mineral, VA,
- Mineral, WV,
- Turbith's mineral,
- West Mineral,
- coal miner,
- gold miner,
- miner's cat,
- miner's lettuce,
- mineral deficiency,
- mineral dressing,
- mineral extraction,
- mineral jelly,
- mineral orange,
- mineral processing,
- mineral red,
- mineral resources,
- mineral vein,
- placer miner,
- strip miner,
- turpeth mineral,
- Miner County, SD,
- Mineral City, OH,
- Mineral County, CO,
- Mineral County, MT,
- Mineral County, NV,
- Mineral County, WV,
- Mineral Hills, MI,
- Mineral Point, MO,
- Mineral Point, WI,
- Mineral Ridge, OH,
- Mineral Springs, AR,
- Mineral Springs, NC,
- Mineral Wells, TX,
- Warm Mineral Springs,
- West Mineral, KS,
- birch leaf miner,
- coal miner's lung,
- leaf-miner,
- Warm Mineral Springs, FL