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n. A glacial or alluvial deposit of sand or gravel containing eroded particles of valuable minerals.

n. A place where a placer deposit is washed to extract its mineral content.

n. One who places or arranges something.

n. A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.

n. A deposit of sand or earth in a river-bed etc. which contains particles of gold or other precious minerals.

n. One who places or sets.

n. A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.

n. One who places, locates, or sets.

n. In minning, a place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold or other valuable minerals: a word formerly in common use in California, but now nearly obsolete.

n. In ceramics, a workman in a pottery who places the unburned ware in the saggars and arranges the saggars in the kiln.

In mining, to mine by the hydraulic process; wash out (gold) from a bank by a stream of water.

n. an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral

"They then wanted to gather the gold, and Marshall threatened to shoot them if they attempted it; but these men had sense enough to know that if "placer" - gold existed at Coloma, it would also be found farther down-stream, and they gradually"

alluvial sediment    alluvial deposit    alluvium    alluvion   

creek placers    wet placer    placer-claim    ancient beach placers    hillside placers    dry placer    seabeach placers    river-bar placers    gravel-plain placers    bench placers   

Gasser    Masur    Nasser    Pacer    Vassar    acer    baser    bracer    chaser    eraser   

mourir    penser    remarquer    rester    regarder    parvenir    Vienne    nommer    envoyer    reino