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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

min·er / ˈmīnər/ • n. 1. a person who works in a mine. ∎ a device used to mine ores, etc. ∎ hist. a person who digs tunnels in order to destroy an enemy position with explosives. 2. an Australian bird (genus Manorina) of the honeyeater family, having a loud call and typically nesting colonially. 3. a small South American bird (genus Geositta) of the ovenbird family that excavates a long burrow for breeding. 4. short for leaf miner.

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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

miner n. a person who digs tunnels in order to destroy an enemy position with explosives.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

miner •beginner, Berliner, Corinna, dinner, grinner, inner, Jinnah, sinner, skinner, spinner, thinner, winner •echidna •Krishna, Mishnah, Ramakrishna •vintner • prisoner • Pilsner •Kitchener • Modena • bargainer •imaginer •Elinor, Helena •milliner •examiner, stamina •epiphenomena, phenomena, prolegomena •alumina, noumena, numina •determiner •mariner, submariner •foreigner • larcener • Porsena •patina • retina • Pristina •Herzegovina • breadwinner •prizewinner •angina, assigner, china, consignor, decliner, definer, Dinah, diner, diviner, forty-niner, hardliner, incliner, Indo-China, liner, maligner, Medina, miner, minor, mynah, recliner, refiner, Regina, Salina, Shekinah, shiner, signer, South Carolina, Steiner, twiner, vagina, whiner •headliner • jetliner • airliner •mainliner • eyeliner • moonshiner •Landsteiner • Niersteiner •Liechtensteiner

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