PLACER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does placer mean? 

• PLACER (noun)
  The noun PLACER has 1 sense:

1. an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral

  Familiarity information: PLACER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLACER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("placer" is a kind of...):

alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium (clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down)

 Context examples 

It was not a startling find, merely a low-pay placer where long hours of severe toil earned each man between fifteen and twenty dollars a day.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Spring came on once more, and at the end of all their wandering they found, not the Lost Cabin, but a shallow placer in a broad valley where the gold showed like yellow butter across the bottom of the washing-pan.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)