gold panner
- noun
- /ɡoʊld ˈpænər/
:
buscador de oro
- After years of practice, he became an experienced gold panner, skilled at extracting gold from the stream.
Examples
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Then Bill wades into this mob of drunks, sharps, whores, gold-panners, mental deficients, liquored soldiers, all of them friends of the great Texas gunfighter, Phil...
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The gold panner carefully washed the gravel in his pan, hoping to find precious flakes of gold.
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The canoeists, fur-trappers, and gold-panners are far outnumbered by bears, moose, and eagles.
Fiction book (1993) -
As a dedicated gold panner, she spent her weekends searching for nuggets along the riverbank.
Synonyms
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3.1
A person who digs or pans for gold
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5.3
A person who digs or pans for gold at a mine
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7.7
A person who washes soil in a pan to look for gold
A person who searches river sand for gold by washing or digging it up
How Industrial
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward noun+noun modifier: 'gold' (the metal) combined with 'panner' (one who pans). The meaning — a person who pans for gold — is directly derivable from the constituents and follows a common compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Gold panner comes from the simple image of the words gold and pan: a person using a shallow pan in a stream, swirling soil so the light sand washes away and the heavy gold stays. So a gold panner is 'a person who washes soil or gravel in a pan to find gold'.