minern.¹

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪnə/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪnər/

Forms: Middle English minere, Middle English minour, Middle English minoure, Middle English mvner (transmission error), Middle English mynere, Middle English mynoure, Middle English mynowr, Middle English mynowre, Middle English mynur, Middle English–1500s mynor, Middle English–1500s mynour, Middle English–1600s myner, 1500s mioner, 1500s mynar, 1600s myoner, 1600s– miner, 1800s minor; Scottish pre-1700 minour, pre-1700 mynder, pre-1700 myndour, pre-1700 myndoure, pre-1700 myner, pre-1700 mynner, pre-1700 mynnour, pre-1700 mynor, pre-1700 mynour, pre-1700 mynowr, 1800s– miner.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French minour.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French minour (c1200 in Old French as minëor , also in Anglo-Norman as minor ; French mineur ) < miner mine v. + -our -or suffix. Compare post-classical Latin minarius, minearius sapper (from late 12th cent. in British sources), person who extracts minerals from the earth (from late 13th cent. in British sources), Portuguese mineira (13th cent.), Spanish minera (1348), minero (1387), Italian minerator (1611 in Florio).With sense 4 compare similar entomological use in French (18th cent.). With forms with medial -d- , compare variants s.v. mine n. and mine v. Attested as a surname in England from the early 13th cent., as Adam le Miner (1212), Rich. le Minnor (1327), Margery Mynur (1340), though it is unclear whether these are to be interpreted as Middle English or Anglo-Norman.

I. A person who digs or lays mines, etc.

a. A person who excavates the ground, esp. one who constructs underground passages beneath a wall, fort, etc., for military purposes. In later use esp. Military: a soldier whose special duty is the laying of explosive mines. Now chiefly historical.Sappers and Miners: see sapper n.¹

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > engineer > sapper

minera1300

sapper1626

counterminer1684

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > digger or excavator

minera1300

grubbera1400

diggerc1400

spitter1648

groundsman1785

excavator1815

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who lays or operates mines or bombs > [noun]

mine master1598

petarder1611

petardier1632

miner1692

springer1860

explosionist1868

dynamitard1882

dynamitist1882

dynamiter1883

dynamiteur1883

bomb-thrower1891

bomber1915

car bomber1919

letter bomber1947

firebomber1957

plastiqueur1961

a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 72 Ne may no Mynur hire vnderwrote.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 179 Richard had minoures [Fr. minours] þat myned vndere þe walle.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 445 Mynouris sone thai gert pers throw the wall.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 245/2 Myner under the grounde, pionnier.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 4774 Mynours then mightely the moldes did serche, Ouertyrnet the toures & the tore walles.

1606 T. W. Araignem. & Execution late Traytors sig. C2 [Guy] Faulks the Miner, iustly called The Deuill of the Vault.

1645 T. Fairfax Let. to W. Lenthall conc. Sherborn Castle 15 Aug. 4 The Myoners having fully wrought the Mine through the Castle wall.

1676 London Gaz. No. 1123/3 We fixed the Miner to the Ravelin, and filled up the Ditch.

1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 470 A miner and another person were taken fixing a train.

1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 737/2 Being afterwards advanc'd to the Ditch, they fix'd their Miners.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 38. ⁋13 A great Body of Miners are summoned to the Camp to countermine the Works of the Enemy.

1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures ii. 35 Very often the Miners on either side met, and fought with as much Fury under Ground, as they did in the Trenches.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lviii. 34 Here Ehrenbreitstein, with her shatter'd wall Black with the miner's blast.

1834 W. F. P. Napier Hist. War Peninsula IV. xiii. iii. 43 The besiegers..attached the miner to the scarp.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 68/2 The sappers and miners may undervalue the flying artillery, and the cavalry may gird at the builders of earthworks.

1962 Mil. Affairs 26 106/2 In October, 1863, the company muster rolls stop being made out as Sappers and Miners and become Sappers and Bombardiers.

1973 S. Milligan More Goon Show Scripts 3/1 Conscripted for World War I as Private in Sappers and Miners.

†b. In extended use. Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys

baneOE

losera1340

leeserc1380

stroyerc1380

destroyer1382

ravenerc1390

castera1400

confounder1401

wastera1425

stroyc1440

undoerc1440

unmakerc1450

confounderess1509

hydraa1513

stroy-good1540

abolisher1548

thunderbolt1559

disannullera1572

stroy-all1573

ruiner1581

down-puller1583

murdererc1585

spendingc1595

blaster1598

assassin1609

ruinater1609

dissolver1611

minerc1614

destructioner1621

fordoer1631

sinker1632

destructive1640

deletery1642

assassinatea1658

ruinator1658

destroyeress1662

destructora1691

dissolvent1835

solvent1841

wrecker1882

destructant1889

the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > terrestrial animal > on or under the ground > that burrows

digger1585

minerc1614

tunnelist1799

burrower1854

fossorial1855

tunneller1860

fodient1879

c1614 C. Cornwallis in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 158 Jesuites, and Priests, the only moths, and miners of this common~wealth.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 16 Death's subtle seed within, (Sly, treacherous Miner!) working in the Dark, Smil'd at thy well-concerted scheme.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 273 Hillocks green and soft, Raised by the mole, the miner of the soil.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 215 Sometimes when waiting quietly on a bank, you may see the miner [sc. a rabbit] at work.

1897 W. Anderson On Surg. Treatm. Lupus 2 Rarely attempting to deal with the apparently healthy tissues which conceal the bacillary sappers and miners who are at work in advance of the main body.

2. A person who works in a mine, or extracts minerals from the earth. In later use chiefly: spec. a person employed in this capacity by a mining company.Frequently with prefixed distinguishing word designating the material extracted, the type of mine, etc., as coal, copper, silver miner; placer, strip-miner, etc.: see the first element. Some examples should be interpreted as parasynthetic compounds.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun]

minerc1390

digger1531

pioneer1552

mineman1579

groover1610

berman1677

Vulcana1680

pitman1709

pikeman1744

Geordie1861

c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 287 A Mynour wonede in a Citee, Mynours þei makeþ in hulles holes As men don þat secheþ coles.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 10733 Þys mynur soȝte stones vndyr þe molde, Þat men make of syluer and golde.

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. Prol. 101 Masonis, mynours, & manye oþere craftis.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. 38 Mynours that coude ful craftly digge vndre the erthe.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1532 Mynors of marbull ston & mony oþer thinges.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 22 The myners dygged the superficiall or vppermost parte of the earthe of the mynes.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 678 This (he saith) may be tryed in labourers, Myoners, Diggers, and Husbandmen.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. ix. 153 Miners and such as digg deepe into the earth.

1661 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1820) VII. 361 All myners, mettallers and others.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 78 If we examine the complexion of most miners, we shall be very well able to form a judgment of the unwholsomness of the place where they are confined.

1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iv. i. 123 The miner lights Upon a vein of virgin ore.

1862 Macmillan's Mag. May 32 The miner must be prepared to tramp it to that part of the Quesnelle or Cariboo gold-fields.

1901 Census Schedule, Instruct. Miners..should always state the kind of mine in which they work—as, Lead-miner.

1917 U. Sinclair King Coal 50 Under the state law, the miner has a right to demand a check-weighman to protect his interests at the scales.

1936 J. G. Williams & H. J. May I am Black 120 The compound was a large square around which were the sleeping houses of the black miners.

1985 I. Hislop Secret Diary Ld. Gnome 101/1 This is an urgent appeal for a huge bonus for striking miners and their pickets.

II. Technical uses.

†a. A kind of plough used for opening a deep furrow (see quot. 1805¹). Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > other types of plough

ox-plough?1523

double plough1653

chip plough1742

Rotherham plough1743

fluke plough1775

breaking plough1781

miner1794

snap-plough1798

turf-cutter1819

scooter plough1820

bull-tongue1831

prairie plough1831

split-plough1840

prairie breaker1857

straddle-plough1875

tickle-plough1875

chill-plough1886

stump-jump1896

swamp plough1930

prairie buster1943

1794 J. Holt Gen. View Agric. Lancaster 44 Another instrument has been lately introduced, which Mr. Eccleston..calls the miner.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 12 The Miner is another plough, which is used for opening ground to a great depth; it is made very strong, but with a share only.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 385 The land may be opened up as deep as possible by the common plough, having others, such as that which has been termed a miner, following in the bottom of the furrow.

a1818 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 232/1 The miner is very similar to the binot.

†b. A vessel used to lay mines at sea. Obsolete. rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > mine-layer

minelayer1886

miner1898

mining ship1905

1898 Daily News 8 June 2/7 In a sudden squall, the miner he was on collided with the steam launch Volta.

c. Any of various machines designed to aid or carry out mining or tunnelling.

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1951 E. Mason Pract. Coal Mining (ed. 2) II. 548/2 The ‘Continuous Miner’ is a noteworthy development of the Joy Manufacturing Company of America. It..rips the coal from the face and discharges it into a conveyor.

1973 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 24/3 A machine new to Australia—an ‘alpine miner’ which will complete the tunnels without need for any blasting.

1982 Sci. Amer. Sept. 69/1 A continuous miner expressly designed to minimize the cost of fracturing coal was financed by an industry-supported organization.

†a. An insect which builds nests underground; spec. (a) = miner ant n. at Compounds 1; (b) = mining bee n. at mining adj. Compounds. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Andrenidae (mining-bee)

miner1817

mining bee1893

sweat-bee1894

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvii. 79 Another species of ant, which I shall call the miners (F[ormica] cunicularia, L[atreille].).

1893 L. N. Badenoch Romance of Insect World iii. 74 A group of these bees is popularly called the Miners, a name..bestowed upon them by Reaumur.

b. An insect larva which burrows in plant tissue, esp. between the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf; (also) the adult of such an insect. Cf. leaf miner n. at leaf n.¹ Compounds 2.Such insects belong to various orders, notably several groups of flies and moths, as well as some beetles and sawflies.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > member of (tineid)

leaf miner1830

miner1830

tinean1842

tineid1888

1830 J. Rennie Insect Archit. xii. 238 The vine-leaf miner, when about to construct its cocoon, cuts..two pieces of the membrane of the leaf.

1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 49 [Celery and Parsnip Fly]. The ‘miner’ maggots go through their changes from the egg to the perfect fly so rapidly [etc.].

1922 Ecology 3 86 A small coffee tree, the leaves of which happened to be infested with miners.

1962 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xiv. 680 Whitish legless and headless maggots, up to ¹/ ₅ inch long, [which] mine beneath the epidermis of the stems... Asparagus miner.

1990 Org. Gardening Dec. 51/1 The miner that infests beet, pupates in the soil so winter digging helps to get rid of them.

5. Any of several small South American ovenbirds of the genus Geositta (family Furnariidae), which dig long burrows in which to lay their eggs.One species is sometimes placed in a monotypic genus Geobates. Cf. miner n.³

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Furnariidae (oven-bird) > other types of

stair-beak1869

thorn-bird1890

miner1924

1924 C. E. Hellmayr New Birds Chile in Field Museum Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. 12 72 Two specimens..differ strikingly, by their pale desert-like coloration, from G. C. fissirostris, the common Miner of central Chile.

1961 O. L. Austin & A. Singer Birds of World 1991/1 Many terrestrial ovenbirds dig nest tunnels in the earth. One group, the miners, excavates burrows 5 to 10 feet into a bank, ending in a round chamber which the birds line with soft grasses.

1994 R. S. Ridgely & G. Tudor Birds S. Amer. 25 Most miners range at high elevations in the Andes, with a few occurring on the Peruvian and Chilean coasts, others as far south as Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

Compounds

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† miner ant n. Obsolete rare a European burrowing ant, Formica cunicularia.

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1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvii. 83 The negro and miner ants.

miner's cat n. U.S. (now historical) the cacomistle or ring-tailed cat, Bassariscus astutus.

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1937 J. Grinnell et al. Fur-bearing Mammals Calif. 172 The name ‘miner's cat’ was applied because in early days miners and prospectors kept these animals as pets to rid their cabins of mice and pack rats.

1984 D. Macdonald Encycl. Mammals II. 107 The ringtail is a graceful carnivore which was often reared as a companion and mouser in prospectors' camps in the early American West—hence the name Miner's cat.

miner's dogwood n. U.S. a Californian dogwood, Cornus sessilis, with small yellow flowers and glossy black fruits.

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1938 W. R. Van Dersal Native Woody Plants U.S. 110 Miners dogwood... A large shrub to small tree; flowers in April; thicket forming.

1979 E. L. Little Checklist U.S. Trees 99 Cornus sessilis... blackfruit dogwood... Other common name—miners dogwood.

1996 J. Hegland Into Forest (1997) 176 California Poppy. Miner's Dogwood. Buttercup. Windflower... We were surrounded by flowers all the time.

miner's friend n. (also miners' friend) now historical (a) an early type of steam engine; (b) the Davy safety lamp.

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1702 T. Savery (title) The miners friend; or, an engine to raise water by fire, described.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Miner's Friend, or Miner's Lamp.

1994 Hutchinson Dict. Sci. Biogr. (ed. 2) 604/2 Various suggestions had been made for using steam power but the Miners' Friend, as Savery's invention was called, showed most promise of significant advance.

miner's inch n. (also miners' inch) = inch n.¹ 1d.

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1865 Sci. Amer. 15 Apr. 241/1 The quantity that will be discharged through an inch opening with a six inch head measured from the center of the opening is called a miner's inch of water.

1949 W. Hertrich Huntington Bot. Gardens 6 The purchasers of water rights had the additional privilege of..pumping water not to exceed 30 miners' inches.

miner's lettuce n. (also miners' lettuce) winter purslane, Montia perfoliata.

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1921 G. Stratton-Porter Her Father's Daughter ii. 23 The stream..wound back and forth..watering beds of crisp, cool miners' lettuce, great ferns, and heliotrope, climbing clematis, and blue-eyed grass.

1923 Ecology 4 66 Associated Species..Montia spatulata (Dougl.) Howell..Miner's lettuce.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 June 2/3 In the forest where dwarf cornel, miner's lettuce and mountain valerian glimmer.

1991 G. Ehrlich Islands, Universe, Home iii. 29 I cleanse my taste buds with miner's lettuce and stream water and try to imagine what kinds of sweetness the earth provides.

miner's licence n. (also miners' licence) Australian and New Zealand = miner's right n.

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1862 H. Brown Victoria as I found It 148 Every person carrying goods into the gold fields ought to have a miners' license.

1968 F. Rose Austral. Revisited 25 The Miner's Licence was a tax on labour which struck at the miner's right to follow his chosen occupation.

miner's right n. (also miners' right) Australian and New Zealand a licence to dig or mine for minerals (originally, for gold).

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1855 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre (1966) No. 9. 15 It shall be lawful for the Governor..to cause documents to be issued each of which shall be called ‘The Miner's Right’ and shall be granted to any person applying for the same upon payment of a fee of one pound.

1863 Rules & Regulations Otago Gold Fields 7 Every person residing on a Gold Field and engaged in mining for gold, shall take out a Miner's Right; such Miner's Right to be carried on the person, and produced for inspection when demanded.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. i. 1 I am a real gold digger..and the holder of a Miner's Right, a wonderful document, printed and written on parchment.

1979 N. Perry & R. Perry Gemstones in Austral. 17 A ‘Miner's Right’ must be obtained in order to mine for gemstones in Queensland.

miners' strike n. a strike by mineworkers; spec. the strike conducted by coal miners in Britain in 1984–5 against a plan to close numerous coal pits.

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1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 300/2 What is to come of the..thousands of drawboys and carters whom the colliers and miners' strike utterly ruins?

1880 Weekly Gaz. (Colorado) 2 Oct. 1/3 Then followed the miners' strike, by which all paying mines were promptly closed.

1915 C. P. Lucas South Afr. Pt. II vi. 471 In 1913 a miners' strike on the Rand degenerated into riot and anarchy in Johannesburg.

1989 R. Graef Talking Blues ii. 62 The miner's strike gave the police the first chance to try out the public order tactics, training and equipment with which they had been practising since the riots of 1981.

2013 Independent (Nexis) 17 Apr. The death of Lady Thatcher has stirred bitter memories in communities struggling still with the legacy of the miners' strike.

C2. In the names of occupational diseases and disorders of miners.The lung diseases referred to are anthracosis and other forms of pneumoconiosis.

miner's anaemia n. [after French anémie des mineurs]

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1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxvi. 557 In Europe it [sc. ankylostomiasis] is sometimes known as ‘miners' anæmia’.

1948 L. E. H. Whitby Nurses' Handbk. Hygiene (ed. 8) v. 137 The worms cause a considerable degree of anæmia on account of the blood that they suck. This manifestation of the disease is sometimes known as ‘miner's anæmia’ or ‘St. Gothard's tunnel disease’.

1996 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. vii. 930/1 [The hookworm] A[ncylostoma] duodenale is primarily a subtropical and temperate species... In the past it was responsible for ‘miner's anaemia’.

miner's asthma n.

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1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's asthma, same as Phthisis, miner's.

1894 Detroit Free Press 22 July 2/1 They may..escape..with a mere ‘miner's asthma’.

1897 J. Wright Scenes Sc. Life 65 That painful trouble so prevalent among colliers known as ‘miner's asthma’.

1960 G. Korson Black Rock 351 Industrial ballads were sung solo..; exceptions were in the cases of individual singers suffering from anthracosis, or ‘miner's asthma’.

miner's consumption n.

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1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 285 There is a disease called the miner's consumption.

1904 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 12 370 Yet in many other cases the employer's responsibility is a great deal more evident, as, for example,..grinder's or miner's consumption.

1968 P. W. Thrush Dict. Mining 840 Pneumoconiosis... Also called miner's asthma; miner's consumption; miner's lung.

miner's disease n.

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1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's disease, the same as Miner's elbow.

1975 Maclean's May 43/1 These men are victims of what they call the miner's disease—silicosis, lung cancer and other illnesses brought on by inhaling the mine's dust.

miner's elbow n.

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1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's elbow, a chronic enlargement and thickening of the bursa over the olecranon process of the elbow produced by the semirecumbent position in which a miner works in low-roofed tunnels.

1912 J. G. Adami & J. McCrae Text-bk. Pathol. xii. 678 ‘Housemaid's knee’, ‘miner's elbow’, and ‘weaver's bottom’ are all well-known forms of bursitis.

miner's lung n.

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1858 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1859) 4 i. 204 It is but rarely that in this country we have an opportunity of examining that form of melanosis of the lungs which is, or rather was, so common among the workmen in English coal mines, as to have obtained for it the name of Miners' Lung.

1909 W. G. Spence Australia's Awakening 27 A form of phthisis called ‘miner's lung’ overtook men after a few years, and led to a..lingering death.

1985 Fremdsprachen 29 77 Pneumoconiosis,..any disease of the lungs or bronchi caused by the inhalation of metallic or mineral particles, is so common among colliers that it is more usually known as ‘miner's lung’.

miner's nystagmus n.

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1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight viii. 111 An affection noticed in miners, and called ‘miner's nystagmus’, in which..the eyes continually oscillate.

1962 H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Work (ed. 2) ix. 262 The occupational disease known as miner's nystagmus is so named on account of the ocular movements commonly associated with it.

1984 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 90 201 The conceptualization of psychosomatic disorders as ‘real’ illness was shaped by and, in turn, shaped the diagnosis of and compensation for miner's nystagmus.

miner's phthisis n.

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1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Phthisis Miner's phthisis, the same as coalminer's phthisis [sc. Anthracosis pulmonum].

1932 Man 32 27/2 A third [paper], dealing with the geographical and anthropological factors found in association with miner's phthisis in the lead-mining area of Cardiganshire is contributed by Mr. Emrys G. Bowen.

miner's rot n.

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1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 244 ‘Grinders' rot’, ‘miners' rot’ and so forth.

miner's sickness n.

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1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's sickness, syncope occurring suddenly in men working in mines in which blasting is carried on.

miner's worm n.

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1903 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 4/2 An Ayrshire medical man, who wrote to the Home Secretary asking whether his Department is doing anything to stop the disease known as ‘miners' worm’.

1913 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 76 805 The anatomy and physiology of the miner's worm is described.

Derivatives

ˈminer-like adj.

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1880 S. Harper in Pioneer Mining Co., Debenture Prospectus 3 If the above property be carried out in a miner~like manner..it will not fail to become one of the best Mines.

1916 Yukon Territory I. iii. 22 All mining operations for the purpose of representing claims shall be done in a minerlike manner.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	miner
释义	minern.¹ Brit. /ˈmʌɪnə/, U.S. /ˈmaɪnər/ Forms: Middle English minere, Middle English minour, Middle English minoure, Middle English mvner (transmission error), Middle English mynere, Middle English mynoure, Middle English mynowr, Middle English mynowre, Middle English mynur, Middle English–1500s mynor, Middle English–1500s mynour, Middle English–1600s myner, 1500s mioner, 1500s mynar, 1600s myoner, 1600s– miner, 1800s minor; Scottish pre-1700 minour, pre-1700 mynder, pre-1700 myndour, pre-1700 myndoure, pre-1700 myner, pre-1700 mynner, pre-1700 mynnour, pre-1700 mynor, pre-1700 mynour, pre-1700 mynowr, 1800s– miner. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French minour. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French minour (c1200 in Old French as minëor , also in Anglo-Norman as minor ; French mineur ) < miner mine v. + -our -or suffix. Compare post-classical Latin minarius, minearius sapper (from late 12th cent. in British sources), person who extracts minerals from the earth (from late 13th cent. in British sources), Portuguese mineira (13th cent.), Spanish minera (1348), minero (1387), Italian minerator (1611 in Florio).With sense 4 compare similar entomological use in French (18th cent.). With forms with medial -d- , compare variants s.v. mine n. and mine v. Attested as a surname in England from the early 13th cent., as Adam le Miner (1212), Rich. le Minnor (1327), Margery Mynur (1340), though it is unclear whether these are to be interpreted as Middle English or Anglo-Norman. I. A person who digs or lays mines, etc. 1. a. A person who excavates the ground, esp. one who constructs underground passages beneath a wall, fort, etc., for military purposes. In later use esp. Military: a soldier whose special duty is the laying of explosive mines. Now chiefly historical.Sappers and Miners: see sapper n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > engineer > sapper minera1300 sapper1626 counterminer1684 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > digger or excavator minera1300 grubbera1400 diggerc1400 spitter1648 groundsman1785 excavator1815 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who lays or operates mines or bombs > [noun] mine master1598 petarder1611 petardier1632 miner1692 springer1860 explosionist1868 dynamitard1882 dynamitist1882 dynamiter1883 dynamiteur1883 bomb-thrower1891 bomber1915 car bomber1919 letter bomber1947 firebomber1957 plastiqueur1961 a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 72 Ne may no Mynur hire vnderwrote. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 179 Richard had minoures [Fr. minours] þat myned vndere þe walle. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 445 Mynouris sone thai gert pers throw the wall. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 245/2 Myner under the grounde, pionnier. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 4774 Mynours then mightely the moldes did serche, Ouertyrnet the toures & the tore walles. 1606 T. W. Araignem. & Execution late Traytors sig. C2 [Guy] Faulks the Miner, iustly called The Deuill of the Vault. 1645 T. Fairfax Let. to W. Lenthall conc. Sherborn Castle 15 Aug. 4 The Myoners having fully wrought the Mine through the Castle wall. 1676 London Gaz. No. 1123/3 We fixed the Miner to the Ravelin, and filled up the Ditch. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 470 A miner and another person were taken fixing a train. 1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 737/2 Being afterwards advanc'd to the Ditch, they fix'd their Miners. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 38. ⁋13 A great Body of Miners are summoned to the Camp to countermine the Works of the Enemy. 1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures ii. 35 Very often the Miners on either side met, and fought with as much Fury under Ground, as they did in the Trenches. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lviii. 34 Here Ehrenbreitstein, with her shatter'd wall Black with the miner's blast. 1834 W. F. P. Napier Hist. War Peninsula IV. xiii. iii. 43 The besiegers..attached the miner to the scarp. 1885 Cent. Mag. May 68/2 The sappers and miners may undervalue the flying artillery, and the cavalry may gird at the builders of earthworks. 1962 Mil. Affairs 26 106/2 In October, 1863, the company muster rolls stop being made out as Sappers and Miners and become Sappers and Bombardiers. 1973 S. Milligan More Goon Show Scripts 3/1 Conscripted for World War I as Private in Sappers and Miners. †b. In extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys baneOE losera1340 leeserc1380 stroyerc1380 destroyer1382 ravenerc1390 castera1400 confounder1401 wastera1425 stroyc1440 undoerc1440 unmakerc1450 confounderess1509 hydraa1513 stroy-good1540 abolisher1548 thunderbolt1559 disannullera1572 stroy-all1573 ruiner1581 down-puller1583 murdererc1585 spendingc1595 blaster1598 assassin1609 ruinater1609 dissolver1611 minerc1614 destructioner1621 fordoer1631 sinker1632 destructive1640 deletery1642 assassinatea1658 ruinator1658 destroyeress1662 destructora1691 dissolvent1835 solvent1841 wrecker1882 destructant1889 the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > terrestrial animal > on or under the ground > that burrows digger1585 minerc1614 tunnelist1799 burrower1854 fossorial1855 tunneller1860 fodient1879 c1614 C. Cornwallis in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 158 Jesuites, and Priests, the only moths, and miners of this common~wealth. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 16 Death's subtle seed within, (Sly, treacherous Miner!) working in the Dark, Smil'd at thy well-concerted scheme. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 273 Hillocks green and soft, Raised by the mole, the miner of the soil. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 215 Sometimes when waiting quietly on a bank, you may see the miner [sc. a rabbit] at work. 1897 W. Anderson On Surg. Treatm. Lupus 2 Rarely attempting to deal with the apparently healthy tissues which conceal the bacillary sappers and miners who are at work in advance of the main body. 2. A person who works in a mine, or extracts minerals from the earth. In later use chiefly: spec. a person employed in this capacity by a mining company.Frequently with prefixed distinguishing word designating the material extracted, the type of mine, etc., as coal, copper, silver miner; placer, strip-miner, etc.: see the first element. Some examples should be interpreted as parasynthetic compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] minerc1390 digger1531 pioneer1552 mineman1579 groover1610 berman1677 Vulcana1680 pitman1709 pikeman1744 Geordie1861 c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 287 A Mynour wonede in a Citee, Mynours þei makeþ in hulles holes As men don þat secheþ coles. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 10733 Þys mynur soȝte stones vndyr þe molde, Þat men make of syluer and golde. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. Prol. 101 Masonis, mynours, & manye oþere craftis. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xiv. 38 Mynours that coude ful craftly digge vndre the erthe. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1532 Mynors of marbull ston & mony oþer thinges. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 22 The myners dygged the superficiall or vppermost parte of the earthe of the mynes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 678 This (he saith) may be tryed in labourers, Myoners, Diggers, and Husbandmen. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. ix. 153 Miners and such as digg deepe into the earth. 1661 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1820) VII. 361 All myners, mettallers and others. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 78 If we examine the complexion of most miners, we shall be very well able to form a judgment of the unwholsomness of the place where they are confined. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iv. i. 123 The miner lights Upon a vein of virgin ore. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. May 32 The miner must be prepared to tramp it to that part of the Quesnelle or Cariboo gold-fields. 1901 Census Schedule, Instruct. Miners..should always state the kind of mine in which they work—as, Lead-miner. 1917 U. Sinclair King Coal 50 Under the state law, the miner has a right to demand a check-weighman to protect his interests at the scales. 1936 J. G. Williams & H. J. May I am Black 120 The compound was a large square around which were the sleeping houses of the black miners. 1985 I. Hislop Secret Diary Ld. Gnome 101/1 This is an urgent appeal for a huge bonus for striking miners and their pickets. II. Technical uses. 3. †a. A kind of plough used for opening a deep furrow (see quot. 1805¹). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > other types of plough ox-plough?1523 double plough1653 chip plough1742 Rotherham plough1743 fluke plough1775 breaking plough1781 miner1794 snap-plough1798 turf-cutter1819 scooter plough1820 bull-tongue1831 prairie plough1831 split-plough1840 prairie breaker1857 straddle-plough1875 tickle-plough1875 chill-plough1886 stump-jump1896 swamp plough1930 prairie buster1943 1794 J. Holt Gen. View Agric. Lancaster 44 Another instrument has been lately introduced, which Mr. Eccleston..calls the miner. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 12 The Miner is another plough, which is used for opening ground to a great depth; it is made very strong, but with a share only. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 385 The land may be opened up as deep as possible by the common plough, having others, such as that which has been termed a miner, following in the bottom of the furrow. a1818 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 232/1 The miner is very similar to the binot. †b. A vessel used to lay mines at sea. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > mine-layer minelayer1886 miner1898 mining ship1905 1898 Daily News 8 June 2/7 In a sudden squall, the miner he was on collided with the steam launch Volta. c. Any of various machines designed to aid or carry out mining or tunnelling. ΚΠ 1951 E. Mason Pract. Coal Mining (ed. 2) II. 548/2 The ‘Continuous Miner’ is a noteworthy development of the Joy Manufacturing Company of America. It..rips the coal from the face and discharges it into a conveyor. 1973 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 24/3 A machine new to Australia—an ‘alpine miner’ which will complete the tunnels without need for any blasting. 1982 Sci. Amer. Sept. 69/1 A continuous miner expressly designed to minimize the cost of fracturing coal was financed by an industry-supported organization. 4. †a. An insect which builds nests underground; spec. (a) = miner ant n. at Compounds 1; (b) = mining bee n. at mining adj. Compounds. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Andrenidae (mining-bee) miner1817 mining bee1893 sweat-bee1894 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvii. 79 Another species of ant, which I shall call the miners (F[ormica] cunicularia, L[atreille].). 1893 L. N. Badenoch Romance of Insect World iii. 74 A group of these bees is popularly called the Miners, a name..bestowed upon them by Reaumur. b. An insect larva which burrows in plant tissue, esp. between the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf; (also) the adult of such an insect. Cf. leaf miner n. at leaf n.¹ Compounds 2.Such insects belong to various orders, notably several groups of flies and moths, as well as some beetles and sawflies. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > member of (tineid) leaf miner1830 miner1830 tinean1842 tineid1888 1830 J. Rennie Insect Archit. xii. 238 The vine-leaf miner, when about to construct its cocoon, cuts..two pieces of the membrane of the leaf. 1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 49 [Celery and Parsnip Fly]. The ‘miner’ maggots go through their changes from the egg to the perfect fly so rapidly [etc.]. 1922 Ecology 3 86 A small coffee tree, the leaves of which happened to be infested with miners. 1962 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xiv. 680 Whitish legless and headless maggots, up to ¹/ ₅ inch long, [which] mine beneath the epidermis of the stems... Asparagus miner. 1990 Org. Gardening Dec. 51/1 The miner that infests beet, pupates in the soil so winter digging helps to get rid of them. 5. Any of several small South American ovenbirds of the genus Geositta (family Furnariidae), which dig long burrows in which to lay their eggs.One species is sometimes placed in a monotypic genus Geobates. Cf. miner n.³ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Furnariidae (oven-bird) > other types of stair-beak1869 thorn-bird1890 miner1924 1924 C. E. Hellmayr New Birds Chile in Field Museum Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. 12 72 Two specimens..differ strikingly, by their pale desert-like coloration, from G. C. fissirostris, the common Miner of central Chile. 1961 O. L. Austin & A. Singer Birds of World 1991/1 Many terrestrial ovenbirds dig nest tunnels in the earth. One group, the miners, excavates burrows 5 to 10 feet into a bank, ending in a round chamber which the birds line with soft grasses. 1994 R. S. Ridgely & G. Tudor Birds S. Amer. 25 Most miners range at high elevations in the Andes, with a few occurring on the Peruvian and Chilean coasts, others as far south as Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Compounds C1. † miner ant n. Obsolete rare a European burrowing ant, Formica cunicularia. ΚΠ 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvii. 83 The negro and miner ants. miner's cat n. U.S. (now historical) the cacomistle or ring-tailed cat, Bassariscus astutus. ΚΠ 1937 J. Grinnell et al. Fur-bearing Mammals Calif. 172 The name ‘miner's cat’ was applied because in early days miners and prospectors kept these animals as pets to rid their cabins of mice and pack rats. 1984 D. Macdonald Encycl. Mammals II. 107 The ringtail is a graceful carnivore which was often reared as a companion and mouser in prospectors' camps in the early American West—hence the name Miner's cat. miner's dogwood n. U.S. a Californian dogwood, Cornus sessilis, with small yellow flowers and glossy black fruits. ΚΠ 1938 W. R. Van Dersal Native Woody Plants U.S. 110 Miners dogwood... A large shrub to small tree; flowers in April; thicket forming. 1979 E. L. Little Checklist U.S. Trees 99 Cornus sessilis... blackfruit dogwood... Other common name—miners dogwood. 1996 J. Hegland Into Forest (1997) 176 California Poppy. Miner's Dogwood. Buttercup. Windflower... We were surrounded by flowers all the time. miner's friend n. (also miners' friend) now historical (a) an early type of steam engine; (b) the Davy safety lamp. ΚΠ 1702 T. Savery (title) The miners friend; or, an engine to raise water by fire, described. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Miner's Friend, or Miner's Lamp. 1994 Hutchinson Dict. Sci. Biogr. (ed. 2) 604/2 Various suggestions had been made for using steam power but the Miners' Friend, as Savery's invention was called, showed most promise of significant advance. miner's inch n. (also miners' inch) = inch n.¹ 1d. ΚΠ 1865 Sci. Amer. 15 Apr. 241/1 The quantity that will be discharged through an inch opening with a six inch head measured from the center of the opening is called a miner's inch of water. 1949 W. Hertrich Huntington Bot. Gardens 6 The purchasers of water rights had the additional privilege of..pumping water not to exceed 30 miners' inches. miner's lettuce n. (also miners' lettuce) winter purslane, Montia perfoliata. ΚΠ 1921 G. Stratton-Porter Her Father's Daughter ii. 23 The stream..wound back and forth..watering beds of crisp, cool miners' lettuce, great ferns, and heliotrope, climbing clematis, and blue-eyed grass. 1923 Ecology 4 66 Associated Species..Montia spatulata (Dougl.) Howell..Miner's lettuce. 1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 June 2/3 In the forest where dwarf cornel, miner's lettuce and mountain valerian glimmer. 1991 G. Ehrlich Islands, Universe, Home iii. 29 I cleanse my taste buds with miner's lettuce and stream water and try to imagine what kinds of sweetness the earth provides. miner's licence n. (also miners' licence) Australian and New Zealand = miner's right n. ΚΠ 1862 H. Brown Victoria as I found It 148 Every person carrying goods into the gold fields ought to have a miners' license. 1968 F. Rose Austral. Revisited 25 The Miner's Licence was a tax on labour which struck at the miner's right to follow his chosen occupation. miner's right n. (also miners' right) Australian and New Zealand a licence to dig or mine for minerals (originally, for gold). ΚΠ 1855 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre (1966) No. 9. 15 It shall be lawful for the Governor..to cause documents to be issued each of which shall be called ‘The Miner's Right’ and shall be granted to any person applying for the same upon payment of a fee of one pound. 1863 Rules & Regulations Otago Gold Fields 7 Every person residing on a Gold Field and engaged in mining for gold, shall take out a Miner's Right; such Miner's Right to be carried on the person, and produced for inspection when demanded. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. i. 1 I am a real gold digger..and the holder of a Miner's Right, a wonderful document, printed and written on parchment. 1979 N. Perry & R. Perry Gemstones in Austral. 17 A ‘Miner's Right’ must be obtained in order to mine for gemstones in Queensland. miners' strike n. a strike by mineworkers; spec. the strike conducted by coal miners in Britain in 1984–5 against a plan to close numerous coal pits. ΚΠ 1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 300/2 What is to come of the..thousands of drawboys and carters whom the colliers and miners' strike utterly ruins? 1880 Weekly Gaz. (Colorado) 2 Oct. 1/3 Then followed the miners' strike, by which all paying mines were promptly closed. 1915 C. P. Lucas South Afr. Pt. II vi. 471 In 1913 a miners' strike on the Rand degenerated into riot and anarchy in Johannesburg. 1989 R. Graef Talking Blues ii. 62 The miner's strike gave the police the first chance to try out the public order tactics, training and equipment with which they had been practising since the riots of 1981. 2013 Independent (Nexis) 17 Apr. The death of Lady Thatcher has stirred bitter memories in communities struggling still with the legacy of the miners' strike. C2. In the names of occupational diseases and disorders of miners.The lung diseases referred to are anthracosis and other forms of pneumoconiosis. miner's anaemia n. [after French anémie des mineurs] ΚΠ 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxvi. 557 In Europe it [sc. ankylostomiasis] is sometimes known as ‘miners' anæmia’. 1948 L. E. H. Whitby Nurses' Handbk. Hygiene (ed. 8) v. 137 The worms cause a considerable degree of anæmia on account of the blood that they suck. This manifestation of the disease is sometimes known as ‘miner's anæmia’ or ‘St. Gothard's tunnel disease’. 1996 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. vii. 930/1 [The hookworm] A[ncylostoma] duodenale is primarily a subtropical and temperate species... In the past it was responsible for ‘miner's anaemia’. miner's asthma n. ΚΠ 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's asthma, same as Phthisis, miner's. 1894 Detroit Free Press 22 July 2/1 They may..escape..with a mere ‘miner's asthma’. 1897 J. Wright Scenes Sc. Life 65 That painful trouble so prevalent among colliers known as ‘miner's asthma’. 1960 G. Korson Black Rock 351 Industrial ballads were sung solo..; exceptions were in the cases of individual singers suffering from anthracosis, or ‘miner's asthma’. miner's consumption n. ΚΠ 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 285 There is a disease called the miner's consumption. 1904 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 12 370 Yet in many other cases the employer's responsibility is a great deal more evident, as, for example,..grinder's or miner's consumption. 1968 P. W. Thrush Dict. Mining 840 Pneumoconiosis... Also called miner's asthma; miner's consumption; miner's lung. miner's disease n. ΚΠ 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's disease, the same as Miner's elbow. 1975 Maclean's May 43/1 These men are victims of what they call the miner's disease—silicosis, lung cancer and other illnesses brought on by inhaling the mine's dust. miner's elbow n. ΚΠ 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's elbow, a chronic enlargement and thickening of the bursa over the olecranon process of the elbow produced by the semirecumbent position in which a miner works in low-roofed tunnels. 1912 J. G. Adami & J. McCrae Text-bk. Pathol. xii. 678 ‘Housemaid's knee’, ‘miner's elbow’, and ‘weaver's bottom’ are all well-known forms of bursitis. miner's lung n. ΚΠ 1858 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1859) 4 i. 204 It is but rarely that in this country we have an opportunity of examining that form of melanosis of the lungs which is, or rather was, so common among the workmen in English coal mines, as to have obtained for it the name of Miners' Lung. 1909 W. G. Spence Australia's Awakening 27 A form of phthisis called ‘miner's lung’ overtook men after a few years, and led to a..lingering death. 1985 Fremdsprachen 29 77 Pneumoconiosis,..any disease of the lungs or bronchi caused by the inhalation of metallic or mineral particles, is so common among colliers that it is more usually known as ‘miner's lung’. miner's nystagmus n. ΚΠ 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight viii. 111 An affection noticed in miners, and called ‘miner's nystagmus’, in which..the eyes continually oscillate. 1962 H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Work (ed. 2) ix. 262 The occupational disease known as miner's nystagmus is so named on account of the ocular movements commonly associated with it. 1984 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 90 201 The conceptualization of psychosomatic disorders as ‘real’ illness was shaped by and, in turn, shaped the diagnosis of and compensation for miner's nystagmus. miner's phthisis n. ΚΠ 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Phthisis Miner's phthisis, the same as coalminer's phthisis [sc. Anthracosis pulmonum]. 1932 Man 32 27/2 A third [paper], dealing with the geographical and anthropological factors found in association with miner's phthisis in the lead-mining area of Cardiganshire is contributed by Mr. Emrys G. Bowen. miner's rot n. ΚΠ 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 244 ‘Grinders' rot’, ‘miners' rot’ and so forth. miner's sickness n. ΚΠ 1891 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Miner Miner's sickness, syncope occurring suddenly in men working in mines in which blasting is carried on. miner's worm n. ΚΠ 1903 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 4/2 An Ayrshire medical man, who wrote to the Home Secretary asking whether his Department is doing anything to stop the disease known as ‘miners' worm’. 1913 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 76 805 The anatomy and physiology of the miner's worm is described. Derivatives ˈminer-like adj. ΚΠ 1880 S. Harper in Pioneer Mining Co., Debenture Prospectus 3 If the above property be carried out in a miner~like manner..it will not fail to become one of the best Mines. 1916 Yukon Territory I. iii. 22 All mining operations for the purpose of representing claims shall be done in a minerlike manner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † minern.² Forms: Middle English myneer, Middle English myner, Middle English mynere, Middle English mynure, 1500s miner. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French miner; Latin minera. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman miner, minere (see minera n.), and partly < post-classical Latin minera minera n. Compare Middle Dutch minere, mineer (early modern Dutch minére), Middle Low German minere, Middle High German miniere (a1490; German Miner). Obsolete. = minera n. Also: a mineral impregnation. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > material containing ore > matrix miner?a1425 mother stone1442 minera?1645 matrix1651 mother-spar1681 veinstone1696 gangue1778 veinstuff1796 gangart1799 matrice1855 cement1881 skarn1901 the world > the earth > minerals > [noun] > mineral impregnation miner1562 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 157^v Also it is to eschewe þat it be nouȝt to mych contynued biside the mynerez of vertues. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 4257 (MED) Of riche myneris thei serche the entrailles To fynde out metallis for worldli auauntages. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 57 Make them then to gether for to be so desponsate By congellacione into A miner metallyne. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 1, in 2nd Pt. Herball Then seynge that there can not be found any other miner or mater to be the chefe ruler in these baths. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 3, in 2nd Pt. Herball Two thinges whereby the miner or metall, or vayne of a bath may be knowne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). minern.³ Brit. /ˈmʌɪnə/, U.S. /ˈmaɪnər/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: myna n. Etymology: Originally a variant of myna n., perhaps assimilated to miner n.¹, now distinguished in form in sense below. Any of various Australian honeyeaters of the genus Manorina. Cf. myna n. 2.Cf. miner n.¹ 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Meliphagidae (honey-eater) > other or miscellaneous types of bell-bird1802 miner1832 myna1832 blue eye1841 spine-bill1848 stitch-bird1873 soldier-bird1881 1832 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies (1843) 30 Birds of various kinds..abound..the wattle-bird, the Miner. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. IV. Pl. 79 (caption) Yellow-throated Miner. 1938 F. Blakeley Hard Liberty 178 I knew only one type of miner before I came here, but every hundred miles or so we seemed to get a new variety. 1973 V. Serventy Desert Walkabout 52 Miner is a name given to several rather similar honeyeaters. 1992 New Scientist 7 Nov. 6/2 An aggressive native bird, the bell miner, was removed from its habitat, and the honeyeaters' nests protected by cages. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1300n.²?a1425n.³1832
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