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land-miner Esp. West, Slang 
n. See 1920 quote.
See also: mine soil miner wheat miner
- 1920 All this talk of mine about wheat sounds as though I were what they call out here a Soil Robber, or a Land Miner, a get-rich-quick squatter who doesn't bother about mixed farming or the rotation of crops, with no true love for the land. . . .
- 1940 In his good days he had been an optimist and a speculator, a land-miner rather than a farmer, a businessman in agriculture.
- 1920 All this talk of mine about wheat sounds as though I were what they call out here a Soil Robber, or a Land Miner, a get-rich-quick squatter who doesn't bother about mixed farming or the rotation of crops, with no true love for the land. . . .