MINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miner mean? 

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

1. laborer who works in a mine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Laborer who works in a mine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

miner; mineworker

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 

We were a family of tin-miners at Redruth, but we sold our venture to a company, and so retired with enough to keep us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A “miners’ meeting,” called on the spot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Asbestos miners were shown to have an increased risk of developing asbestosis, bronchogenic carcinoma and malignant mesothelioma.

(Asbestos Mining, NCI Thesaurus)

It came in a single night, and the miners awoke to howling wind, driving snow, and freezing water.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

After that came a long newspaper story about how a miners’ camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was my Frank’s name among the killed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

It occurs in coal miners.

(Anthracosis, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

If you do, I'll call a miners' meeting and see you strung up to the nearest tree. As you said, this is not California.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This exploit was particularly gratifying to the three men; for they stood in need of the outfit which it furnished, and were enabled to make a long-desired trip into the virgin East, where miners had not yet appeared.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)