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high-grader † 
n. a person who steals or traffics in high-grade ore from a mine.
See also: high-grade ((1)) ((v.)) (def. 1)
- 1953 (1958) . . . when the police raided the basement of the post office on a hot tip that high-graders were using it as a smelter, the lining of the furnace assayed at $18,000 per ton.
- 1963 At the time, the heat was supposed to be on Timmins' high-graders, the men who steal, refine and sell gold from the local mines.
- 1953 (1958) . . . when the police raided the basement of the post office on a hot tip that high-graders were using it as a smelter, the lining of the furnace assayed at $18,000 per ton.