Reverse Dictionary: MINE

ADJECTIVES
► HOT especially rich in minerals or other deposits; profitable → 1855 Amer. mining sl.

NOUNS
► BAL a mine; the surface of a mine → c1600
► BARGH a mine → 1693 obs.
► CABOONER a rich strike in mining → 1945 Amer. dial.
► COAL HOLE a coal mine, esp. a closed mine → 1997 US sl.
► DIGGINGS a mine → 1926 US sl. (Bk.)
► DOGHOLE a small mine, esp. a coal mine → 1943 Amer. dial.
► DRY HOUSE a building in which miners change their clothing → 1884
► GOPHER HOLE a small mine or mine opening; a shallow or haphazardly dug excavation → 1889 Amer. dial.
► MINERY mining works; the locality of the mines → 1898 Eng. dial.  
► PAIR a gang of miners → 1895 Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BACK-OVERMAN in coal mining: an overman who has the immediate inspection of the workings and workmen during the back-shift (the second shift for the day) → 1876 Brit.
► BADGER a lead miner, spec. one who lives in a dugout close to the diggings; esp. in Wisconsin → 1833 US colloq.
► BAL-GIRL a girl who works on the surface at a mine → 1812
► BAL-MAID a girl who works on the surface at a mine → 1882 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BAL-MAIDEN a girl who works on the surface at a mine → 1882 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BANDSMAN a miner, from the circumstance of working in connection with the ‘band’ or flat rope by which the coal, etc. is hoisted → 1852
► BANKER a man who works on the pit-bank, as opposed to miners working in the pit → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BANKMAN an overlooker above ground at a coal-mine → 1598 obs.
► BANK-MANAGER in mining: the superintendent at a pit’s mouth → 1884 obs.
► BANK-RIDERS men who ride the coal-wagons or trucks moving on self-acting inclines, or inclines worked by ropes and hauling engines, on the surface or ‘bank’ of a pit → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BANKSMAN in mining: a person who works at the mouth of a pit, supervising the loading of coal and the lowering and raising of the cage → 1486
► BAR a local judge amongst miners, a barmaster → a1661
► BARGAIN-MAN in mining: a man who works by the ‘bargain’ at special work, such as stone or coal drifting, rolleyway making, etc. (bargain – a piece of work to be done at a certain price) → 1858
► BARGAIN-TACKER the foreman who undertakes the work in a section of a lead mine → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BARGAIN-TAKER in mining: a man who works by the ‘bargain’ at special work, such as stone or coal drifting, rolleyway making, etc. (bargain – a piece of work to be done at a certain price) → 1897
► BARGEMASTER in mining, the surveyor → 1795 (Bk.)
► BARGHMASTER a local judge amongst miners; a surveyor of mines → 1662
► BAR-MASTER a local judge amongst miners; one who who grants mines and fixes the boundaries; the person that measures the ore → 1662
► BARROW-MAN a putter; one who puts the tubs of coals from the working places to the cranes, flats, or stations, whence they are taken by horses along the main or rolleyways to the shaft → 1892 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BEACHER in NZ: a miner who works among the black-iron sands found on the beaches → 1930
► BEARER a person, usually a woman or girl, who formerly carried coal in baskets from the workings to the shaft, and in many cases up the ladders to the surface; the bearer was usually the miner’s wife or daughter → 1890 Sc. (Bk.)
► BERGHMASTER a bergmaster; the chief officer among the Derbyshire miners → 1795 (Bk.)
► BERG-MASTER an officer amongst the Derbyshire miners → 1717 (Bk.)
► BERMAN a miner → 1677 obs.
► BEVIN BOY in Britain, during World War II: a young man of age for military service, but selected by lot to work in a coal-mine → 1944
► BINDER one who undertakes to keep a mine open → 1849
► BUTTY a workmate, esp. in a colliery → 1981 Brit. colloq. (Bk.)
► CALLER an official at a colliery whose duty it was to go round from house to house to call up the men for work → 1843 Eng. dial.
► COAL-PUTTER in mining: a person who propels a loaded coal-hutch from the coal-face to the pit-bottom by means of a series of shoves or pushes; ‘a man or boy who assists a drawer to take his hutch along a difficult part of a drawing-road’ → 1842 Sc.
► FACE MAN one who works in a specific part of a mine → 1921
► GAITSMAN a workman employed in a coal-pit for making the passages or roads → 1825 Sc.
► GALLOPER an assistant superintendent → 1962 Amer. coal miners’ sl. (Bk.)
► GANG RIDER a person who rides on the trains of an underground railway, esp. in a mine, and has responsibility for giving signals, operating couplings and track switches, etc. → 1866
► GASMAN in coal mining: a man responsible for checking a mine for firedamp → 1876
► GATES-MAN one employed in a coal-pit to make the passages → a1649 obs.
► GEORDIE a coal miner, esp. one from Tyneside or a neighbouring region of north-east England → c1760
► GEORDIE-MARROW a coal miner → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GETTER a person who extracts material from a mine, quarry, etc.; spec. a coal miner who extracts the coal after a seam has been undercut → 1688
► GRASS CAPTAIN the supervisor of the surface operations of a mine → 1778 Eng. dial.
► GROOVER ► GROVER ► GROVIER a miner → 1610 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GROUND-BAILIFF a superintendent or inspector of mines → 1858
► GROUNDHOG a person who customarily works underground, esp. a miner or caisson worker → 1926 Amer. sl.
► HABILITATOR in the western mining districts of the U.S.: one who advances money or property for working a mine, under contract with its proprietors → 1889 (Bk.)
► HAGGER a coal-hewer → 1894 Eng. dial.
► HALF-MARROW in mining, a partner → 1847
► HATTER a miner, esp. a gold miner, who works independently rather than with a partner → 1853 Aust. & NZ
► HAY BARBER one who works on a farm or ranch during the summer, and as a miner during the winter → 1949 Amer. dial.
► HAY JOHN one who works on a farm or ranch during the summer, and as a miner during the winter → 1943 Amer. dial.
► HEAVER a collier who superintends the coal-pit → 1790 Eng. dial.  
► KALSOMINER a person who claims mining experience and skills he does not have → 1964 Can. sl. 
► KECKER an overseer at a coal-mine → 1855 Eng. dial.
► MINDER a miner → 1867 Eng. dial.
► MOOR-MASTER a superintendent or manager of a mine → 1864 Eng. dial.
► SPADIARD a labourer in the Cornish tin-mines, so called from their spades → 1610 obs.
► SPADIER a labourer in the Cornish tin-mines, so called from their spades → 1706 obs.
► SPALIARD ► SPALLIARD a labourer engaged in tin-mining → 1625 obs.
► SPALLER in mining: a person employed in spalling (breaking ore into smaller pieces) → 1843
► SPALLIER a labourer engaged in tin-mining → 1836 obs.
► SPRINGER a person who sets off a mine → 1860 obs.
► TAKER in Derbyshire lead mines: a miner who takes possession of a mere (portion of ground), after the ‘founder’ has taken his mere; one who takes up a claim → 1601
► TALLY-SHOUTER in mining: one who shouts out the numbers on the tallies to the weigher → 1883
► TAMPER in mining: one who tamps or prepares for blasting → 1864
► VANNER in mining: one who tests the quality of ore by washing it on a shovel → 1671
► VEERER in mining: an old word for ‘banksman’; a supervisor → 1883 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WAGGONER ► WAGONER in mining: a man in charge of a horse who arranges railway trucks in pit sidings → 1886
► WAITER-ON a person who attends as banksman at a sinking pit, or who attends to the signals and other work about the shaft top in the absence of the banksman → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WALER in coal mining: a boy who picks out stones, pyrites, etc. from the good coals → 1825
► WINNACEMAN in coal-mining: a windlass operator → 1730 Sc.

VERBS
► GOPHER to prospect or mine in a random or unsystematic manner → 1889 Amer. dial.
► GOPHER AROUND to prospect or mine in a random or unsystematic manner → 1905 Amer. dial.
► HABILITATE to furnish with means, esp. with the working of a mine → 1824
► SALT to misrepresent the value of a mine by introducing ore from else where → 1862 sl.