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sniper 
1 n. Placer Mining a person who snipes.
- 1963 The sniper then takes over, cleaning and scraping pockets and even rewashing old boulder-piles.
- 1966 . . . the bars had been left for the sniper to work in his slow, laborious way for whatever he could make.
2 n. Lumbering, Hist. See 1956 quote.
- 1906 "He ought to be chased out of the woods," said Jim, the sniper.
- 1956 These were . . . snipers who shaped the butt ends so they [logs] wouldn't hang up on the skids. . . .
- 1963 The sniper then takes over, cleaning and scraping pockets and even rewashing old boulder-piles.