Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who works in a mine; a miner.
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- noun One who works in a
mine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun laborer who works in a mine
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Examples
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Their leader was Frank Desmond Anderson, a twenty-eight-year-old mineworker who had been organizing for the union since the age of nineteen.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Yesterday moves lyrically between the rural and urban, capturing the breadth of the country and the double life of the migrant mineworker.
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Their leader was Frank Desmond Anderson, a twenty-eight-year-old mineworker who had been organizing for the union since the age of nineteen.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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It is refreshing to hear the new head of the AFL-CIO, former mineworker and Mineworkers President Richard Trumka, get mad at sell-out Democrats and make a threat not to "support" them next year.
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It is interesting to me that they chose a firefighter rather than a mineworker for the ad.
Union Mail Blitz Hits McCain -- In Deep Red West Virginia 2009
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This comes in the wake of the death of another mineworker at the
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Paraje, a mineworker visiting his family in the capital.
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The family of the 30-year - old mineworker who was killed has asked for his body to be returned to the Eastern Cape where he was born.
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Harmony gold spokeswoman Amelia Soares said the mineworker was killed in an accident involving a scraper.
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She said the work stoppage at Harmony's Virginia operations was related to a death of a mineworker last Friday at the Unisel mine.
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