The miner Surname
miner Name Meaning and History
English: occupational name for someone who built mines, either for
the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the
medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative
of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic
origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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