noun. One whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth.

noun. A machine for the automatic extraction of minerals, especially of coal.

noun. A soldier, often a specialist, engaged in mining operations.

noun. A leaf miner.

noun. One who mines; a person engaged in digging for metals or minerals, or in forming a military or other mine.

noun. In zoöl, an insect that mines: chiefly in composition: as, a leaf-miner.

noun. The term is sometimes limited to one who mines for minerals other than coal, a coal-miner being called a collier in Great Britain.

noun. 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.

noun. undefined

noun. Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

noun. The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).

noun. a swelling on the black of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon; -- so called because of frequent occurrence in miners.

noun. in hydraulic mining, the amount of water flowing under a given pressure in a given time through a hole one inch in diameter. It is a unit for measuring the quantity of water supplied.

noun. A person who works in a mine.

noun. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

noun. A bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

noun. laborer who works in a mine

"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."

miners' anemia  miners' asthma  miners' disease  miners' elbow  miners' inch  

mine  mining  

Bell Miner  Black-eared Miner  Noisy Miner  Yellow-throated Miner  leaf miner  

jack  laborer  labourer  manual laborer  

coal miner  collier  gold digger  gold miner  gold panner  

Berliner  Criner  Reiner  Shriner  Steiner  

adventurer  banker  carpenter  farmer  fisherman  

butty  collier  desert rat  digger  dredge