Miner

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Miner \Min"er\, n. [Cf. F. mineur.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. 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; as, armies have
        sappers and miners.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.)
        (a) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state,
            excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They
            are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
        (b) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia
            ({Myzantha garrula}).
            [1913 Webster]
  
     {Miner's elbow} (Med.), 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.
  
     {Miner's inch}, 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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  miner
       n : laborer who works in a mine [syn: {mineworker}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "miner":
     butty, collier, desert rat, digger, dredge, dredger, driller,
     excavator, gold digger, gold miner, gold panner, groundhog,
     mineworker, navvy, prospector, sandhog, sapper, sourdough,
     steam shovel, tunneler
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Miner, MO (city, FIPS 48656)
    Location: 36.89383 N, 89.53460 W
    Population (1990): 1218 (483 housing units)
    Area: 9.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Miner -- U.S. County in South Dakota
     Population (2000):    2884
     Housing Units (2000): 1408
     Land area (2000):     570.336145 sq. miles (1477.163771 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    1.650350 sq. miles (4.274386 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    571.986495 sq. miles (1481.438157 sq. km)
     Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
     Location:             44.022071 N, 97.600049 W
     Headwords:
      Miner
      Miner, SD
      Miner County
      Miner County, SD
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Miner, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
     Population (2000):    1056
     Housing Units (2000): 442
     Land area (2000):     4.100342 sq. miles (10.619837 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.002709 sq. miles (0.007015 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    4.103051 sq. miles (10.626852 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            48656
     Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
     Location:             36.892082 N, 89.535861 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Miner, MO
      Miner