Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A glacial or alluvial deposit of sand or gravel containing eroded particles of valuable minerals.
- noun A place where a placer deposit is washed to extract its mineral content.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In minning, a place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold or other valuable minerals: a word formerly in common use in California, but now nearly obsolete.
- In mining, to mine by the hydraulic process; wash out (gold) from a bank by a stream of water.
- noun One who places, locates, or sets.
- noun In ceramics, a workman in a pottery who places the unburned ware in the saggars and arranges the saggars in the kiln.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.
- noun One who places or sets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
places orarranges something. - noun ethology, Australia, New Zealand A
lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality. - noun mining A deposit of sand or earth in a river-bed etc. which contains particles of
gold or other precious minerals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In addition, it was accepted that some groups knew how to take advantage of any rich ores found in placer deposits in streams.
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In addition, it was accepted that some groups knew how to take advantage of any rich ores found in placer deposits in streams.
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They then wanted to gather the gold, and Marshall threatened to shoot them if they attempted it; but these men had sense enough to know that if "placer" - gold existed at Coloma, it would also be found farther down-stream, and they gradually
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They then wanted to gather the gold, and Marshall threatened to shoot them if they attempted it; but these men had sense enough to know that if "placer" - gold existed at Coloma, it would also be found farther down-stream, and they gradually
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They then wanted to gather the gold, and Marshall threatened to shoot them if they attempted it; but these men had sense enough to know that if "placer" - gold existed at Coloma, it would also be found farther down-stream, and they gradually
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They then wanted to gather the gold, and Marshall threatened to shoot them if they attempted it; but these men had sense enough to know that if "placer" - gold existed at Coloma, it would also be found farther down-stream, and they gradually
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As Dalton and I learned this morning, season six’s third-placer is every bit as level-headed off the Project Runway set.
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Such deposits, where minerals are concentrated by their weight, are called placer deposits.
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The second type of gold deposit is called a placer deposit.
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When these streams slow down, the diamonds are deposited in the stream sands in what are called placer deposits.
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