Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth.
- n. A machine for the automatic extraction of minerals, especially of coal.
- n. A soldier, often a specialist, engaged in mining operations.
- n. Zoology A leaf miner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who mines; a person engaged in digging for metals or minerals, or in forming a military or other mine.
- n. In zoöl, an insect that mines: chiefly in composition: as, a leaf-miner.
- n. The term is sometimes limited to one who mines for minerals other than coal, a coal-miner being called a collier in Great Britain.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who works in a mine.
- n. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- n. Any of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
- n. The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
WordNet 3.0
- n. laborer who works in a mine
Examples
“I've knowed them to, maybe when somebody'd be out or didn't come in (maybe it would be a chucker or maybe it would be a machine runner — what we called a miner), well, they'd give you so many candles (we used to use candles, you see) and send them down and tell them to stay down.”
“Massey Energy Co., the nation's sixth-largest coal miner, is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, according to people familiar with the matter.”
The Wall Street Journal: Massey's Directors Mull Sale, Options
“*** Metals and mining Massey Energy, the U. S.'s sixth-largest coal miner, is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“Cliffs Natural Resources added 3.7% and Freeport McMoran gained 2.9%, while Massey Energy jumped 5.8% amid reports the Richmond, Va., miner is exploring a potential sale of the company.”
“The typical workweek for a miner is 60 hours, according to workers.”
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’
“Springfield, Ill.: What was the major medical help that NASA provided which seemed to help the most -- general health care, specialized health issues that a certain miner may have had, or dietary suggestions?”
The Washington Post: Chilean miners: NASA official on their health
“If all goes according to plan, the first miner is expected to be lifted to safety early Wednesday morning, more than two months after the accident that left the men sealed off from the world above.”
The Washington Post: Workers reinforce rescue tunnel for Chilean miners
“Rusal's Mr. Vekselberg said in the letter that Mr. Potanin's statement that "the current market price of Norilsk reflects a fair valuation [of the company] in the current market conditions supports Rusal's worries that the potential of the miner is not properly realized in the interests of all shareholders.”
The Wall Street Journal: Rusal Not Interested in Selling Norilsk Stake
“Areva also could sell assets, such as its Transmission & Distribution unit, which makes high-voltage equipment for substations, or its 26.43% stake in French miner Eramet SA, the people familiar with the matter say.”
The Wall Street Journal: France's Areva Feels Its Power Wane
“One miner is shown being carried out of the mine having been overcome by the poisonous fumes.”
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