资料来源 : pyDict
矿工,开矿机,地雷工兵
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Miner \Min"er\, n. [Cf. F. mineur.]
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. (Zo["o]l.)
(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}).
{Miner's elbow} (Med.), a swelling on the black of the elbow
due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon; -- so
called because of frequent occurrence in miners.
{Miner's inch}, in hydraulic mining, the amount of water
flowing under a given pressure in a given time through a
hole one inch in diameter. It is a unit for measuring the
quantity of water supplied.
资料来源 : WordNet®
miner
n : laborer who works in a mine [syn: {mineworker}]