mine-huntern.
/ˈmʌɪn ˌhʌntə/, U.S. /ˈmaɪn ˌ(h)ən(t)ər/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > prospector
mine-hunter1722
prospector1846
1722 P. Lloyd Let. 19 July in Calvert Papers (1894) II. 26 The Mine upon the Susquehanna hath made such a Noise in the World, tht. the Woods are now full of Mine hunters.
1849 Littell's Living Age 20 Oct. 120/2 I remember him when he was only a poor buscon—a common mine-hunter.
1874 Scribner's Monthly May 44/2 Don Diaz Gana succeeded in interesting the Baron de la Rivière in an exploring expedition... The former engaged the ‘Cateadores’, mine-hunters.
2. A warship used for detecting and destroying mines; a minesweeper.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > mine-sweeper
minesweeper1904
sweeper1915
M/S1923
R-boat1942
mine-hunter1964
1964 Navy News Nov. 5/5 After refitting and converting..H.M.S. Iveston commissioned on October 16th as a Coastal Minehunter.
1974 Times 18 Apr. 1/4 It is the diver's job to locate the unexploded bomb on the canal floor after it has been picked up by the mine-hunter's sonar equipment.
1988 Australian 15 June (Brisbane ed.) 1/2 Australia is on the verge of selling high-tech, navy-designed mine-hunter warships to Arab nations... The revolutionary mine-hunters..come equipped with mini-robot submarines which can track down and destroy enemy mines by remote control.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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