miner
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores: His ancestors were slate miners in Wales who emigrated to the United States.
a mechanical device used in mining: She made her money by developing a miner for extracting ores from the ocean floor.
any of several Australian birds of the genus Manorina, feeding on honey and typically having a loud call.
Entomology. any of various insect larvae that create tunnels in the parenchyma of leaves.
Digital Technology.
a computer or network of computers engaged in solving sets of mathematical problems that are used to verify cryptocurrency transactions and that, when solved, yield a unit of the currency.
a software application that is designed to run this process.
a person or company that engages in this process.
(formerly) a person who places or lays explosive mines.
Origin of miner
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How to use miner in a sentence
However, miners still face harsh conditions and must be supported by more livelihood and jobs programs.
Aaron Rodgers Takes Aim at Congo’s ‘Blood Minerals’ War | John Prendergast | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOr a modernized Tarzan might lead African miners on strike against unscrupulous multinationals.
Can Tarzan of the Apes Survive in a Post-Colonial World? | Ted Gioia | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe miners themselves went on strike again and again, trying to get their wages raised.
Margaret Thatcher had served under the Heath regime as Education Secretary and witnessed the miners topple the Conservative Party.
‘Pride’: The Feel-Good Movie of the Year, and the Film Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Want You to See | Marlow Stern | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1984, a group of lesbian and gay activists joined forces with striking UK miners to help local Welsh communities.
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Twenty baskets of it were obtained by the said miners to assay and investigate its nature, and determine what it might be.
We too are in sympathy with those miners who are now faced with only one bottle of champagne a day.
Finding plenty of miners among the Cornishmen of the 32d, he sunk a countermine for each mine burrowed by the enemy.
The Red Year | Louis TracySome Pennsylvania coal miners in one Union regiment were assigned the task of making the tunnel and laying the mine.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyGale was staring at the dark little shanty that Tom had said was doubtless the entrance to the old miners mine.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O | Clair Blank
British Dictionary definitions for miner
/ (ˈmaɪnə) /
a person who works in a mine
Also called: continuous miner a large machine for the automatic extraction of minerals, esp coal, from a mine
any of various insects or insect larvae that bore into and feed on plant tissues: See also leaf miner
Australian any of several honey-eaters of the genus Manorina, esp M. melanocephala (noisy miner), of scrub regions: See noisy miner
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