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

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

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

n. Zoology A leaf miner.

n. A person who works in a mine.

n. An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

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

n. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

n. laborer who works in a mine

"Massey Energy Co., the nation's sixth-largest coal miner, is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, according to people familiar with the matter."

jack    laborer    labourer    manual laborer   

miners' worm disease    miners' nystagmus    miners' right    miners' disease    miners' anemia    miners' worm    miners' asthma    miners' inch    miners' elbow   

mining    mine   

gold digger    gold miner    prospector    placer miner    collier    coal miner    gold panner    pitman    strip miner   

Yellow-throated Miner    miner's lettuce    Bell Miner    Noisy Miner    Black-eared Miner    leaf miner   

Berliner    Criner    Reiner    Shriner    Steiner    Tyner    Weiner    Wiener    decliner    designer   

settler    fisherman    farmer    workman    laborers    sailor    worker    peasant    hunter    carpenter