placer

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plac=er

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun placer has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

placern. 
     One who places or sets.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
placern. [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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

placer, n. a deposit of sand, gravel, etc., in the bed of a stream etc., containing valuable minerals in particles.

Etymology
Amer. Sp., rel. to placel sandbank f. plaza PLACE

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