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miner Definition

miner (-ər)

noun

  1. a person whose work is digging coal, ore, etc. in a mine
  2. Archaic a soldier who mines enemy installations, etc.

Etymology: ME minour < OFr < miner, to mine

miner Synonyms

miner

n.

excavator, digger, driller, dredger, mineworker, prospector, desert rat*, sourdough*, forty-niner*; see also laborer, worker.

Types of miners include: gold, silver, coal, diamond, amber, quarry, placer; collier, tarrier, driller, blaster, dredger, prospector, hard-rock geologist, caisson worker, gold panner, geologist, geological engineer, mining engineer, mine superintendent; mucker*, donkey engineer*, muckman*, powderman*, high-grader*, rusher*, pocket hunter*, hardrocker*.

miner Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • trap: Flooding on Sunday also trapped 69 miners underground at a mine in Jiaohe city in China's northeastern Jilin province, Xinhua reported.
  • kill: The fire burned for two days, killing 54 miners in total.

Converse of subject

  • inhabit: It is entirely inhabited by miners engaged at the colliery.

Adjective modifier

  • striking: A few years later, in 1984, the North of England the was scene of violent clashes between police and striking coal miners.
  • trapped: Still, Hatfield said the trapped miners could still be alive.
  • retired: But there are still the numbers of retired miners in Lothian to justify this home staying open.
  • unemployed: With the river ahead the route passes the hanging garden which forms a lovely landscape feature and was built by unemployed miners in 1830.
  • Welsh: Jenny Jones was about a Welsh miner with 18 children who wanted to make it 21!
  • injured: Two injured miners were brought out of the mine earlier.

Modifies a noun

  • strike: The miners of the village worked on the hall for free during the miners strike of 1926.
  • lamp: I have a miners lamp which is stamped on its oil reservoir with the initials " ACC " .
  • cottage: The nearby row of miners cottages shows a little of how they lived.

Noun used with modifier

  • coal: Parents James Shaw, coal miner dec & Rachel Ferguson.
  • tin: A 6th C saint who was the patron saint of tin miners.
  • leaf: New species continue to arrive and spread rapidly, for example the horse chestnut leaf miner, which probably first appeared in 2002.
  • gold: First, we are the largest gold miner in Venezuela, which means we get exposure to prime opportunities.

Possessives

  • strike: The Arizona miners ' strike of 1938 dealt with American labor issues including the " right to strike " .
  • canary: They don't die like a miner's canary but if a river is not right they are the first to let you know.
  • lamp: There's a pair of miners ' lamps given by Arthur Scargill.
  • cottage: On the top of the hill were about seven streets of miners ' cottages, with newer streets of council houses to the east.