miner
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nər noun
1.
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
2.
a mechanical device used in mining: a miner for extracting ores from the ocean floor.
3.
any of several Australian birds of the genus Manorina, feeding on honey and typically having a loud call.
4.
any of various insect larvae that create tunnels in the parenchyma of leaves.
5.
(formerly) a person who places or lays military or naval mines.
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| 1. | a person who works in a mine |
| 2. | Also called: continuous miner a large machine for the automatic extraction of minerals, esp coal, from a mine |
| 3. | See also leaf miner any of various insects or insect larvae that bore into and feed on plant tissues |
| 4. | (Austral) See noisy miner any of several honey-eaters of the genus Manorina, esp M. melanocephala (noisy miner), of scrub regions |
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Example sentences
His miner's helmet and headlamp are tilted back at a jaunty angle, revealing longish hair that is surely blond in real life.
Slightly more problematic for the backyard miner is that the metals in dirt often exist in the form of oxides.
Accounting irregularities, however modest, are often the miner's canary.
He built a play corral of mud and broken miner's candle stems, and placed inside the rocks that were his horses.
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