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COAL MINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coal miner mean? 

COAL MINER (noun)
  The noun COAL MINER has 1 sense:

1. someone who works in a coal mineplay

  Familiarity information: COAL MINER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COAL MINER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who works in a coal mine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coal miner; collier; pitman

Hypernyms ("coal miner" is a kind of...):

miner; mineworker (laborer who works in a mine)


 Context examples 


With the help of professional excavators and coal miners, the scientists unearthed vertebrae, ribs, limbs and pelvic bones over the course of several months.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

Specific types include: • Black lung disease among coal miners, from inhaling coal dust • Farmer's lung, from inhaling farm dust • Asbestosis, from inhaling asbestos fibers • Siderosis, from inhaling iron from mines or welding fumes • Silicosis, from inhaling silica dust

(Interstitial Lung Diseases, NIH)

It occurs in coal miners.

(Anthracosis, NCI Thesaurus)



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