miner : Idioms & Phrases

• noun small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation
  Fenusa pusilla.
  

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• noun someone who works in a coal mine
  collier; pitman.
  

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• noun lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
  anthracosis; black lung disease; black lung.
  

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• noun a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
  gold panner; gold digger.
  

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• noun any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae
  leaf miner.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of various small lepidopterous and dipterous insects, which, in the larval stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as, the pear-tree leaf miner (Lithocolletis geminatella).

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• noun any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae
  leaf miner.
  

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• noun raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings
  cacomixle; bassarisk; coon cat; ring-tailed cat; civet cat; cacomistle; Bassariscus astutus; ringtail; raccoon fox.
  

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• (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.

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• 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.

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• noun succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America
  Montia perfoliata; winter purslane; Cuban spinach.
  

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• noun a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging
  

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• noun a miner who does strip mining
  

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