Hypertext Webster Gateway: "placer"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Placer \Pla"cer\, n.
One who places or sets. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Placer \Plac"er\, n. [Sp.]
A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable
mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or
in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
placer
n : an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable
mineral
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