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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who mines for gold.

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Examples

  • Roberts was the name of a gold-miner who adopted him.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • The biggest single gold-miner ETF trade was premised on outsize swings in the mining ETF in either direction, however, an outcome that isn't necessarily bullish.

    Gold 'Fear' Traders Turn to Gold Miners Brendan Conway 2011

  • Russian gold-miner Polymetal plans to enter the FTSE100 before year end by swapping GDRs for shares in a Jersey-listed vehicle.

    The FTSE 100: From Blue Chip to Fool's Gold Andrew Peaple 2011

  • I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Polyus Gold , another Russian gold-miner, could enter the FTSE100 in November but will remain majority-owned by two billionaires.

    The FTSE 100: From Blue Chip to Fool's Gold Andrew Peaple 2011

  • I'm not here to quibble about what blogging might mean in 20 years or sell people new ideas like a mad gold-miner outside an barren cave, but I still can't let Butterworth act that smug.

    How do you spell 'poopoo-ing?' 2006

  • Reread the story about death of the gold-miner Mason in "The White Silence," or "Love of Life," or The Call of the Wild, for example.

    THE NORTHERN TALES 2003

  • For the first time Angela realized why the gold-miner, once successful, could never rid himself of the fever.

    Colorado Jim George Goodchild

  • The diver took a lesson from the neighboring gold-miner, whose hydrostatic pump chisels away the mountain-side to lay bare the mother quartz.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

  • Roberts was the name of a gold-miner who adopted him.

    Chapter 3 1913

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