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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Miner \Min"er\, noun [Cf. F. mineur.]
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.
2. (Zo["o]l.) (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}).
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
miner
noun: 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 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
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
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