panner
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- noun
- /ˈpænər/
:
buscador de oro
- During the gold rush, many panners flocked to the streams in search of their fortunes.
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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As a seasoned panner, she knew the best spots to search for gold along the riverbank.
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The canoeists, fur-trappers, and gold-panners are far outnumbered by bears, moose, and eagles.
Fiction book (1993) -
"It's actually amazing what one old man and a dog and limitless water and endless time can do—the amount of destruction that can be done," says Funch, whose post as the park's first director put him at odds with the old-time diamond panners.
Academic text (2007) -
The gold panner carefully washed the gravel in the river, hoping to find precious nuggets.
Synonyms
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2.3
A person who works in a mine to take coal or minerals from the ground
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5.1
A person who explores land to find minerals like gold or oil
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3.1
A person who digs or pans for gold
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A person who digs or pans for gold at a mine
A person who washes soil and small stones in a pan to find gold
A person who searches river sand for gold by washing or digging it up
A machine or person that uses water to separate metal from rock
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word panner comes from the simple tool pan, a 'shallow dish' used to wash gravel for gold, and to 'pan' is to swirl that dish to find tiny gold pieces. So a panner is someone who searches for gold by panning river sand.