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MINER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Laborer who works in a mine
Synonyms:
miner; mineworker
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("miner" is a kind of...):
jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miner"):
coal miner; collier; pitman (someone who works in a coal mine)
gold digger; gold miner; gold panner (a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field)
placer miner (a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging)
prospector (someone who explores an area for mineral deposits)
strip miner (a miner who does strip mining)
Derivation:
mine (get from the earth by excavation)
Context examples:
When he told us of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride’s manner, of so transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very significant allusion to claim-jumping—which in miners’ parlance means taking possession of that which another person has a prior claim to—the whole situation became absolutely clear.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He spoke of miners' meetings, where all the men of a locality came together and made the law and executed the law.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
They're a simple folk, these miners, and all I'll have to do will be to show them the marks of the beating, tell them the truth about you, and present my claim for my wife.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
