Definitions for Miner

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Miner min·er

Spelling: [mahy-ner]

IPA: /ˈmaɪ nər/

Miner is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Miner (eimnr).

Definitions for Miner

noun

1. Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
2. a mechanical device used in mining:
3. any of several Australian birds of the genus Manorina, feeding on honey and typically having a loud call.
4. any of various insect larvae that create tunnels in the parenchyma of leaves.
5. (formerly) a person who places or lays military or naval mines.

Origin of Miner

1225-75; mine² + -er¹; replacing Middle English minour Anglo-French (see -

Examples for Miner

The moment it opened its mouth the miner sprang from his chair as if he had been shot.

The miner does that journey to and fro, and sandwiched in between there are seven and a half hours of savage work.

Every miner travelling with gold seemed to me a possible victim for my crime.

Not one has been found by a man of high education as a miner or geologist.

Honestly, I am glad to find you here at your work in your miner's clothes.

“Hers is not a story about a victim but a protagonist that makes bad choices,” miner says.

Stanley also took on the cases of the mother and siblings of a miner killed at Upper Big Branch.

“She called me a couple of years before she died,” miner said.

The miner then went into the house and shut the door, leaving the monkey outside.

If a woman wants to be a teacher rather than a miner, or a veterinarian rather than a petroleum engineer, more power to her.