Placer Definition

plăsər
placers
noun
A person who places.
Webster's New World
A waterborne or glacial deposit of gravel or sand containing heavy ore minerals, as gold or cassiterite, which have been eroded from their original bedrock and concentrated as small particles that can be washed out.
Webster's New World
A place where a placer deposit is washed to extract its mineral content.
American Heritage

(slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.

Wiktionary

(ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.

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adjective

(mining) Alluvial; occurring in a deposit of sand or earth on a river-bed or bank, particularly with reference to precious metals such as gold or silver.

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Other Word Forms of Placer

Noun

Singular:
placer
Plural:
placers

Origin of Placer

  • Spanish shoal, placer from Catalan placer shoal from plassa place from Medieval Latin placea place

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From American Spanish placer, from earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese placel.

    From Wiktionary

  • From place +"Ž -er (“suffix apparently denoting association").

    From Wiktionary

  • From place +"Ž -er (“suffix forming agent noun").

    From Wiktionary

Placer Sentence Examples

  • Abandoned placer mines are to be found in every part of the unsettled interior, showing how thoroughly it had been explored by goldhunters in those early days.

  • Placer cassiterite is free of deleterious minerals and is easy to recover having a high specific gravity.

  • The washing of the high or Tertiary gravels by the hydraulic process and the working of mines in the solid rock did not, on the Gold and whole, compensate for the diminished yield of the Silver ordinary placer and river diggings, so that the product of gold in California continued to fall off, and by 1860

  • In 1854, the town was renamed to Placerville, after "placer mining" - a technique of washing out gold during the Gold Rush.

  • The first permanent settlements in Matto Grosso seem to have been made in 1718 and 1719, in the first year at Forquilha and in the second at or near the site of Cuyaba, where rich placer mines had been found.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLA

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RERCER

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