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Dictionary Results for miner:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
miner
    n 1: laborer who works in a mine [syn: miner, mineworker]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Miner \Min"er\, n. [Cf. F. mineur.]
   [1913 Webster]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Zool.)
      (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).
          [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

3. U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
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


4. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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


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