miner Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun laborer who works in a mine
    mineworker.

WordNet


Min"er noun
Etymology
Cf. F. mineur.
Definitions
  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.
  2. (Zoöl.) (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).

Webster 1913