Source : 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.

Source : WordNet®

miner
     n : laborer who works in a mine [syn: {mineworker}]