miner:
(plural: ‘miners‘; pronunciation: ‘miner’ rhymes with “liner”)
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coal miners at work
a person who owns a mine or whose business is mining;
a worker who works in a mine; a mine worker
The word ‘miner’ is commonly used in combination with other words. Some of the common miners are: coalminers, gold miners, diamond miners. There are several types of mines depending on the method of digging for the minerals: open-pit mining — pitman; placer mining — placer miner; strip mining — strip miner, etc.
Return to “collier“.
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Army miners defusing land mines
an army soldier who is an expert in using mines that are placed in enemy lands or seas to blow up enemy defences,
Several army miners are killed in the battles not by enemy bullets but because of the accidents in mining operations. (i.e. the mines blow up accidentally when the miners fix them)
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an adult leafminer
‘Mine’ is equally commonly used as a verb, e.g. “Most of the coal mined in our country is from our place.”
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