placern.¹

Brit.

/ˈpleɪsə/, U.S.

/ˈpleɪsər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: place v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < place v. + -er suffix¹. In sense 2 after French placeur (1927 in the passage translated in quot. 1928 at sense 2).

1. A person who or thing which places, sets, or arranges something.Specialized uses: (a) Ceramics a worker who puts the ware in the kiln for firing; (b) Bookbinding a worker who arranges the sheets or leaves of a book in order.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > action of arranging > one who

disponer1558

placera1578

ranger1611

disposer1624

marshaller1718

arranger1826

composer1836

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] > involved in specific process

glazer1839

slapper1860

mould-runner1863

lathe-treader1865

jollier?1881

tower1894

ground-layer1898

placer1898

lead-glazier1899

glazier1900

thimble-picker1901

jiggerer1921

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process

clasp-man1619

clasp-maker1664

gatherer1683

stitcher1805

book-edge gilder1823

tooler1834

marbler1835

book marbler1843

paper marbler1863

forwarder1870

cropper?1881

flush-binder?1881

inlayer1881

boarder1882

filleter1884

clasper1885

placer1902

a1578 W. Roper Mirrour of Vertue (1626) 112 I was neuer his procurer, or Counsellour thereto, but..a setter out, or a placer of the principall matters.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 164 Thou placer of plants both humble and tall.

1692 J. Dunton Young-students-libr. iv. 254 Here he allows Maphsik to be the Placer of the Shapes, where he can but bring it to the Masorites of Tiberias.

1802 Sporting Mag. 20 16 Setters of broken bones, and placers of dislocations.

1862 T. Wright Hist. Domest. Manners viii. 153 An asséeur, or placer, took the dishes from the hands of the valets, and arranged them in their places on the table.

1898 C. F. Binns Story of Potter iv. ii. 206 The art of putting the ware ready for burning is called ‘placing’, and upon the skill of the placer much of the success of the oven depends.

1902 Daily Chron. 18 June 10/5 Collaters and Placers wanted.

1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 132 Female crickets have an egg placer or ovipositor, which projects behind like a stiff tail.

1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. g1 On the telephone, a sign-off is often needed, as there are people who never will sign off otherwise. The placer of the call is supposed to end it.

2004 Slate Mag. (Nexis) 19 Apr. The enduring weakness with most product placements is that the placers have no control over the surrounding content.

2. slang. An organizer of criminal practices, esp. a dealer in stolen goods.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > organizer

putter-up1796

mastermind1872

placer1928

Mr Big1940

1928 E. Sutton tr. A. Londres Road to Buenos Ayres x. 73 There are also ‘placers’: a strictly official position. Their job is to tend the sacred flame, under the eye of the law, in the ‘houses’ of France.

1959 J. Gosling Ghost Squad iv. 52 Many times we could have picked up the ‘placers’—the men who actually sold the coupons—but this was no good to us.

1969 Guardian 6 Mar. 10/2 There are ‘placers’ who run crime on business lines—who find markets for stolen goods..even before the theft takes place, who..organise drug smuggling, fraudulent bankruptcies, and whatever other activity seems most profitable.

1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard viii. 185 There are thieves and dealers—we call them placers.

1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 6 No problem spending them when you want. No hungry placer grabbing the lion's share.

3. Chiefly North American. A contestant who is awarded a (usually specified) place in a competition, race, etc.; (Horse Racing) a horse that finishes in second place.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > runner-up, etc.

runner-up1859

silver medallist1910

placer1942

vice-champion1981

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §731/20 Placer, a horse that runs second.

1958 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 13 July 24 (caption) Runner-up Lynne Galvin..and third placer Lucille Strazza..took the news happily.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Fifth placer in the..Miss America competition. Time.

1976 Billings Gaz. (Montana) 1 July 4 e/1 Without looking particularly exhausted, he beat second placer Karl Fleschen of West Germany by 49 seconds.

1993 Dog World Nov. 154/1 (advt.) National specialty first award of merit winner, multiple group placer at stud.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

placern.²

Brit.

/ˈplasə/,

/ˈpleɪsə/, U.S.

/ˈplæsər/

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish placer.

Etymology: < Spanish placer (1698 or earlier in this form; earlier as placel (1524 or earlier; rare after mid 17th cent.)), probably < Portuguese †pracel (1471 in place names of north-west Africa; now parcel (beginning of the 16th cent. in this form)), with subsequent alteration after the regular etymological correspondence between Portuguese words with initial pr- and their Spanish cognates with initial pl-.The Portuguese word is of uncertain origin and phonologically difficult to connect with praça place (see place n.¹). See further M. Metzeltin in Festschrift W. von Wartburg (1968) II. 519. J. Corominas Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (1981) at placer alternatively takes the Spanish word to be a borrowing < Catalan placer, but the latter lacks any secure attestation before the first half of the 20th cent., which makes it extremely unlikely as the source of the Spanish word. In plural form placeres after the Spanish plural. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (plēⁱ·səɹ) /ˈpleɪsə(r)/.

Mining (chiefly U.S.).

A deposit of sand, gravel, or earth, esp. in the bed of a stream, containing particles of gold or other valuable minerals; a place where this detritus is washed for gold, etc. Also figurative.In U.S. law, placer includes all forms of mineral deposits excepting veins in place: see place n.¹ Phrases 2a(c).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > auriferous gravel

alluvial1818

placer1829

gravel1849

washing-stuff1853

pay gravel1857

wash-gravel1860

wash-dirt1862

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > place where washing is carried on

washingsc1330

placer1829

1829 R. W. H. Hardy Trav. Interior Mexico 257 The Placer de la Piédra negada..was supposed to have quantities of very large pearl-oysters round it.

1834 A. Delano Life on Plains xv. 241 As soon as placers were discovered on the mountains, roads were opened.

1851 T. G. Appleton Let. 1 Dec. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) II. vii. 206 Why it is a Golden Legend..if it be not that it is such a placer of richness.

1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 325 This placer covers an area of perhaps two hundred acres, with probably an average depth of 25 feet of gold-bearing earth.

1911 J. E. Hodgson Dredging of Gold Placers i. 8 Huge and rich as the gold placers of Siberia are known to be, no really remunerative results have..rewarded mining efforts in that country.

1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxii. 320/1 Diamonds..are also present as placers (alluvial deposits) in subsequent sedimentary sequences.

1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 53/2 Where placers occur great concentrations of certain, often valuable, ores exist.

Compounds

C1.

placer camp n.

ΚΠ

1868 J. R. Browne Rep. Mineral Resources States West of Rocky Mts. 58 in Rep. Mineral Resources U.S. (U.S. Dept. of Treasury) Minor Placer Camps.—At San Domingo, on the limestone belt, four men took out $100,000 in three years.

1906 Outlook 9 June 773/1 It will bring the historic placer-camps of Caniar and Omenica within reach of the mining capitalist.

1997 Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 Nov. 1 There are numerous metallic mineral prospects, very large quantities of industrial minerals such as the zeolite mordenite, and a few isolated gold placer camps such as Albert Creek.

placer claim n.

ΚΠ

1851 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 31 Dec. The miners..allowed to each man thirty feet square, the usual extent of placer claims in that County.

1904 St. Nicholas July 830/1 They had planned to work a ‘placer claim’.

2001 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 29 Apr. t9 Steve Draper, proprietor of Caribou Corner, an RV park, and the Golden Caribou Mining Club, a business that owns a number of placer claims along the river.

placer digging n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation

stream-work1586

opencast?a1650

lavatory1712

lavadero1717

coffin1778

whole working1842

open cut1848

dry- or wet-diggings1849

river diggings1850

placer digging1851

placer working1867

drift mine1882

strip mine1934

1851 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 31 Dec. The miners..very properly pronounced them to be placer diggings, and allowed to each man thirty feet square, the usual extent of placer claims in that County.

1928 Bull. Amer. Soil Surv. Assoc. 9 56 Placer diggings, areas where placer mining has overturned or removed the soil and left a rough, eroded and scarred surface.

1999 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 7 Aug. 4 Streams to the north of us have been profitably worked for years, there is no reason to doubt that the Elbow will yet be the scene of valuable placer digging.

placer gold n.

ΚΠ

1848 in E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. App. 463 The ‘placer’ gold is now substituted as the currency of this country.

1902 L. McKee Land of Nome 1 The rich placer-gold deposits were discovered by a small party of prospectors in the late autumn of 1898.

2001 Isis 92 382/2 Although the Lydians gained some of their wealth from conquest of their neighbors, much came from the placer gold they extracted from the river Pactolus.

placer mine n.

ΚΠ

1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. App. 473 As to similar deposits of gold elsewhere, I believe these [in upper California] to be the richest placer mines in the world.

1906 J. London All Gold Canyon in Moon-face & Other Stories 174 The gold-trace had become something more than a trace; it was a placer mine in itself.

2004 Denver Post (Nexis) 30 Apr. a1 The flume was awesome to behold, and old pictures show that at some point it did carry water to a placer mine.

placer miner n.

ΚΠ

1852 N.-Y. Daily Times 4 May 4/2 Placer miners are now doing well.

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 199 The bars on the Snake River have long been the resort of placer-miners.

1946 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 1/2 A small group of placer miners, many of them backtrackers from the California boom, had been gaining slender winnings in the gravel beds.

1994 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Spring 32/2 Smooth boulders, scattered amid the sand and sagebrush, have been churned and washed by placer miners.

placer mining n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific types of mining

shoading1778

nuggeting1852

placer mining1852

reefing1859

hydraulic mining1873

stripping1874

drift mining1877

gouging1877

hydraulicking1880

open-working1881

strip mining1935

horizon mining1947

roadheading1969

1852 Daily Commercial Reg. (Sandusky, Ohio) 21 Dec. The capital invested in placer mining is $710,900.

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 192 In the great placer-mining region of Idaho there is an underlying basis for permanent mining.

1992 R. M. Bone Geogr. Canad. North ii. vi. 137 Placer mining involved the recovery of auriferous deposits found in stream beds by simple and inexpensive technology.

placer working n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation

stream-work1586

opencast?a1650

lavatory1712

lavadero1717

coffin1778

whole working1842

open cut1848

dry- or wet-diggings1849

river diggings1850

placer digging1851

placer working1867

drift mine1882

strip mine1934

1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (ed. 4) xix. 471 There are placer-workings on rocks containing Jurassic fossils.

1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 299 The amount of gold washed from the bed of creeks and placer-workings.

1996 Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Oct. 31 Ambrex's geochemical reconnaissance programme has identified the source of alluvial gold in the extensive placer workings in the area.

C2.

placer-mine v. (transitive and intransitive) to wash (gravel, sand, etc.), in search of gold or other valuable minerals.

ΚΠ

1865 H. W. Baxley What I saw on W. Coast of S. & N. Amer. 419 This entire mountain..was once placer-mined over its entire surface.

1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 19 July 4/4 A man who came to Arizona,..lived on brown beans and placer-mined on Hassayampa creek.

1944 Life 20 Nov. 11/2 She is now the wife of Johnny Matson, a prospector, who placer-mines for gold up the Seventy Mile River.

1999 Rock & Gem Dec. 74/2 She and her husband, Glenn, placer-mined the famous Tramway Bar on the Koyukuk River, where it meanders along the south slope of the Brooks Range.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

placern.³

Brit.

/ˈpleɪsə/, U.S.

/ˈpleɪsər/, Australian English

/ˈplæesə/, New Zealand English

/ˈplæesə/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: place n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < place n.¹ + -er suffix¹.

Australian and New Zealand slang.

A sheep which becomes attached to a particular spot or object. Also placer sheep.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by habits or actions

hermit1874

placer1921

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > goldminer

gold miner1717

river digger1806

gold-digger1826

gold worker1848

digger1853

reefer1859

goldfielder1898

placer1921

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxxviii. 383 I have never known a ‘placer’ produce a lamb.

1940 A. Wall in Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Jan. 41/2 (title of poem) The placer sheep.

1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang 27 Placers are often lambs whose mothers have died and who have transferred their affection to some object, such as a bush or stone.

1959 S. J. Baker Drum ii. 135 Placer, a sheep which attaches itself to a certain spot. Rural sl[ang].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1578

n.²1829

n.³1921

单词	placer
释义	placern.¹ Brit. /ˈpleɪsə/, U.S. /ˈpleɪsər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: place v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < place v. + -er suffix¹. In sense 2 after French placeur (1927 in the passage translated in quot. 1928 at sense 2). 1. A person who or thing which places, sets, or arranges something.Specialized uses: (a) Ceramics a worker who puts the ware in the kiln for firing; (b) Bookbinding a worker who arranges the sheets or leaves of a book in order. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > action of arranging > one who disponer1558 placera1578 ranger1611 disposer1624 marshaller1718 arranger1826 composer1836 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] > involved in specific process glazer1839 slapper1860 mould-runner1863 lathe-treader1865 jollier?1881 tower1894 ground-layer1898 placer1898 lead-glazier1899 glazier1900 thimble-picker1901 jiggerer1921 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process clasp-man1619 clasp-maker1664 gatherer1683 stitcher1805 book-edge gilder1823 tooler1834 marbler1835 book marbler1843 paper marbler1863 forwarder1870 cropper?1881 flush-binder?1881 inlayer1881 boarder1882 filleter1884 clasper1885 placer1902 a1578 W. Roper Mirrour of Vertue (1626) 112 I was neuer his procurer, or Counsellour thereto, but..a setter out, or a placer of the principall matters. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 164 Thou placer of plants both humble and tall. 1692 J. Dunton Young-students-libr. iv. 254 Here he allows Maphsik to be the Placer of the Shapes, where he can but bring it to the Masorites of Tiberias. 1802 Sporting Mag. 20 16 Setters of broken bones, and placers of dislocations. 1862 T. Wright Hist. Domest. Manners viii. 153 An asséeur, or placer, took the dishes from the hands of the valets, and arranged them in their places on the table. 1898 C. F. Binns Story of Potter iv. ii. 206 The art of putting the ware ready for burning is called ‘placing’, and upon the skill of the placer much of the success of the oven depends. 1902 Daily Chron. 18 June 10/5 Collaters and Placers wanted. 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 132 Female crickets have an egg placer or ovipositor, which projects behind like a stiff tail. 1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. g1 On the telephone, a sign-off is often needed, as there are people who never will sign off otherwise. The placer of the call is supposed to end it. 2004 Slate Mag. (Nexis) 19 Apr. The enduring weakness with most product placements is that the placers have no control over the surrounding content. 2. slang. An organizer of criminal practices, esp. a dealer in stolen goods. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > organizer putter-up1796 mastermind1872 placer1928 Mr Big1940 1928 E. Sutton tr. A. Londres Road to Buenos Ayres x. 73 There are also ‘placers’: a strictly official position. Their job is to tend the sacred flame, under the eye of the law, in the ‘houses’ of France. 1959 J. Gosling Ghost Squad iv. 52 Many times we could have picked up the ‘placers’—the men who actually sold the coupons—but this was no good to us. 1969 Guardian 6 Mar. 10/2 There are ‘placers’ who run crime on business lines—who find markets for stolen goods..even before the theft takes place, who..organise drug smuggling, fraudulent bankruptcies, and whatever other activity seems most profitable. 1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard viii. 185 There are thieves and dealers—we call them placers. 1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 6 No problem spending them when you want. No hungry placer grabbing the lion's share. 3. Chiefly North American. A contestant who is awarded a (usually specified) place in a competition, race, etc.; (Horse Racing) a horse that finishes in second place. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > runner-up, etc. runner-up1859 silver medallist1910 placer1942 vice-champion1981 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §731/20 Placer, a horse that runs second. 1958 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 13 July 24 (caption) Runner-up Lynne Galvin..and third placer Lucille Strazza..took the news happily. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Fifth placer in the..Miss America competition. Time. 1976 Billings Gaz. (Montana) 1 July 4 e/1 Without looking particularly exhausted, he beat second placer Karl Fleschen of West Germany by 49 seconds. 1993 Dog World Nov. 154/1 (advt.) National specialty first award of merit winner, multiple group placer at stud. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). placern.² Brit. /ˈplasə/, /ˈpleɪsə/, U.S. /ˈplæsər/ Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish placer. Etymology: < Spanish placer (1698 or earlier in this form; earlier as placel (1524 or earlier; rare after mid 17th cent.)), probably < Portuguese †pracel (1471 in place names of north-west Africa; now parcel (beginning of the 16th cent. in this form)), with subsequent alteration after the regular etymological correspondence between Portuguese words with initial pr- and their Spanish cognates with initial pl-.The Portuguese word is of uncertain origin and phonologically difficult to connect with praça place (see place n.¹). See further M. Metzeltin in Festschrift W. von Wartburg (1968) II. 519. J. Corominas Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (1981) at placer alternatively takes the Spanish word to be a borrowing < Catalan placer, but the latter lacks any secure attestation before the first half of the 20th cent., which makes it extremely unlikely as the source of the Spanish word. In plural form placeres after the Spanish plural. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (plēⁱ·səɹ) /ˈpleɪsə(r)/. Mining (chiefly U.S.). A deposit of sand, gravel, or earth, esp. in the bed of a stream, containing particles of gold or other valuable minerals; a place where this detritus is washed for gold, etc. Also figurative.In U.S. law, placer includes all forms of mineral deposits excepting veins in place: see place n.¹ Phrases 2a(c). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > auriferous gravel alluvial1818 placer1829 gravel1849 washing-stuff1853 pay gravel1857 wash-gravel1860 wash-dirt1862 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > place where washing is carried on washingsc1330 placer1829 1829 R. W. H. Hardy Trav. Interior Mexico 257 The Placer de la Piédra negada..was supposed to have quantities of very large pearl-oysters round it. 1834 A. Delano Life on Plains xv. 241 As soon as placers were discovered on the mountains, roads were opened. 1851 T. G. Appleton Let. 1 Dec. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) II. vii. 206 Why it is a Golden Legend..if it be not that it is such a placer of richness. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 325 This placer covers an area of perhaps two hundred acres, with probably an average depth of 25 feet of gold-bearing earth. 1911 J. E. Hodgson Dredging of Gold Placers i. 8 Huge and rich as the gold placers of Siberia are known to be, no really remunerative results have..rewarded mining efforts in that country. 1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxii. 320/1 Diamonds..are also present as placers (alluvial deposits) in subsequent sedimentary sequences. 1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 53/2 Where placers occur great concentrations of certain, often valuable, ores exist. Compounds C1. placer camp n. ΚΠ 1868 J. R. Browne Rep. Mineral Resources States West of Rocky Mts. 58 in Rep. Mineral Resources U.S. (U.S. Dept. of Treasury) Minor Placer Camps.—At San Domingo, on the limestone belt, four men took out $100,000 in three years. 1906 Outlook 9 June 773/1 It will bring the historic placer-camps of Caniar and Omenica within reach of the mining capitalist. 1997 Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 Nov. 1 There are numerous metallic mineral prospects, very large quantities of industrial minerals such as the zeolite mordenite, and a few isolated gold placer camps such as Albert Creek. placer claim n. ΚΠ 1851 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 31 Dec. The miners..allowed to each man thirty feet square, the usual extent of placer claims in that County. 1904 St. Nicholas July 830/1 They had planned to work a ‘placer claim’. 2001 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 29 Apr. t9 Steve Draper, proprietor of Caribou Corner, an RV park, and the Golden Caribou Mining Club, a business that owns a number of placer claims along the river. placer digging n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation stream-work1586 opencast?a1650 lavatory1712 lavadero1717 coffin1778 whole working1842 open cut1848 dry- or wet-diggings1849 river diggings1850 placer digging1851 placer working1867 drift mine1882 strip mine1934 1851 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Tribune 31 Dec. The miners..very properly pronounced them to be placer diggings, and allowed to each man thirty feet square, the usual extent of placer claims in that County. 1928 Bull. Amer. Soil Surv. Assoc. 9 56 Placer diggings, areas where placer mining has overturned or removed the soil and left a rough, eroded and scarred surface. 1999 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 7 Aug. 4 Streams to the north of us have been profitably worked for years, there is no reason to doubt that the Elbow will yet be the scene of valuable placer digging. placer gold n. ΚΠ 1848 in E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. App. 463 The ‘placer’ gold is now substituted as the currency of this country. 1902 L. McKee Land of Nome 1 The rich placer-gold deposits were discovered by a small party of prospectors in the late autumn of 1898. 2001 Isis 92 382/2 Although the Lydians gained some of their wealth from conquest of their neighbors, much came from the placer gold they extracted from the river Pactolus. placer mine n. ΚΠ 1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. App. 473 As to similar deposits of gold elsewhere, I believe these [in upper California] to be the richest placer mines in the world. 1906 J. London All Gold Canyon in Moon-face & Other Stories 174 The gold-trace had become something more than a trace; it was a placer mine in itself. 2004 Denver Post (Nexis) 30 Apr. a1 The flume was awesome to behold, and old pictures show that at some point it did carry water to a placer mine. placer miner n. ΚΠ 1852 N.-Y. Daily Times 4 May 4/2 Placer miners are now doing well. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 199 The bars on the Snake River have long been the resort of placer-miners. 1946 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 1/2 A small group of placer miners, many of them backtrackers from the California boom, had been gaining slender winnings in the gravel beds. 1994 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Spring 32/2 Smooth boulders, scattered amid the sand and sagebrush, have been churned and washed by placer miners. placer mining n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific types of mining shoading1778 nuggeting1852 placer mining1852 reefing1859 hydraulic mining1873 stripping1874 drift mining1877 gouging1877 hydraulicking1880 open-working1881 strip mining1935 horizon mining1947 roadheading1969 1852 Daily Commercial Reg. (Sandusky, Ohio) 21 Dec. The capital invested in placer mining is $710,900. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 192 In the great placer-mining region of Idaho there is an underlying basis for permanent mining. 1992 R. M. Bone Geogr. Canad. North ii. vi. 137 Placer mining involved the recovery of auriferous deposits found in stream beds by simple and inexpensive technology. placer working n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation stream-work1586 opencast?a1650 lavatory1712 lavadero1717 coffin1778 whole working1842 open cut1848 dry- or wet-diggings1849 river diggings1850 placer digging1851 placer working1867 drift mine1882 strip mine1934 1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (ed. 4) xix. 471 There are placer-workings on rocks containing Jurassic fossils. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 299 The amount of gold washed from the bed of creeks and placer-workings. 1996 Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Oct. 31 Ambrex's geochemical reconnaissance programme has identified the source of alluvial gold in the extensive placer workings in the area. C2. placer-mine v. (transitive and intransitive) to wash (gravel, sand, etc.), in search of gold or other valuable minerals. ΚΠ 1865 H. W. Baxley What I saw on W. Coast of S. & N. Amer. 419 This entire mountain..was once placer-mined over its entire surface. 1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 19 July 4/4 A man who came to Arizona,..lived on brown beans and placer-mined on Hassayampa creek. 1944 Life 20 Nov. 11/2 She is now the wife of Johnny Matson, a prospector, who placer-mines for gold up the Seventy Mile River. 1999 Rock & Gem Dec. 74/2 She and her husband, Glenn, placer-mined the famous Tramway Bar on the Koyukuk River, where it meanders along the south slope of the Brooks Range. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). placern.³ Brit. /ˈpleɪsə/, U.S. /ˈpleɪsər/, Australian English /ˈplæesə/, New Zealand English /ˈplæesə/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: place n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < place n.¹ + -er suffix¹. Australian and New Zealand slang. A sheep which becomes attached to a particular spot or object. Also placer sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by habits or actions hermit1874 placer1921 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > goldminer gold miner1717 river digger1806 gold-digger1826 gold worker1848 digger1853 reefer1859 goldfielder1898 placer1921 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxxviii. 383 I have never known a ‘placer’ produce a lamb. 1940 A. Wall in Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Jan. 41/2 (title of poem) The placer sheep. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang 27 Placers are often lambs whose mothers have died and who have transferred their affection to some object, such as a bush or stone. 1959 S. J. Baker Drum ii. 135 Placer, a sheep which attaches itself to a certain spot. Rural sl[ang]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1578n.²1829n.³1921
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