Definitions for placer

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placer plac·er

Spelling: [plas-er]

IPA: /ˈplæs ər/

Placer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in placer (acelpr).

Definitions for placer

noun

1. a surficial mineral deposit formed by the concentration of small particles of heavy minerals, as gold, rutile, or platinum, in gravel or small sands.
2. the site of a form of mining (placer mining) in which a placer deposit is washed to separate the gold or other valuable minerals.
3. a person who sets things in their place or arranges them.
4. a person or animal that is among the winners of a race or other contest.

Origin of placer

1835-45, Americanism; American Spanish; Spanish: sandbank Catalan placel, derivative of plaza open place; see plaza

Examples for placer

There was a sudden surge forward of the Jellies and placer was engulfed.

"You've been very gentle in your methods of conversion," said placer.

The larger operations of this kind are called "placer" and "dredge" mining.

"We haven't been notified to expect any government visitors," said placer.

Then they carried him down to placer Creek, and worked over him a lot more.

The gold had been dug out of a placer only thirty miles away.

"They're a lot more tractable than that woman of yours," said placer.

There he proposed to me to join him, and go back to the placer.

Ye'll hev to get rid of them ther fixin's if yer goin' in for placer diggin'!

In the first case it is obtained in crude form by placer mining.