語源 1

Agent noun of place.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpleɪsə/

  Rhymes: -eɪsə(r)

名詞

placer (複数形 placers)

1. Someone who places or arranges something.
2. (slang) Someone who deals in stolen goods; a fence.

語源 2

From American Spanish placer, earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese pracel.

発音

• IPA: /ˈplæsə/, /ˈpleɪsə/

名詞

placer (複数形 placers)

1. (mining) A deposit of sand or earth in a river-bed etc. which contains particles of gold or other precious minerals.
   • 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 110:

     Placer gold comes from the weathering of the primary veins releasing the gold to be transported by water action and concentrated in gravel or sand beds.

   • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, p. 46:

     Since time immemorial, people found that they could extract the gold from placer deposits by sifting the fine-grained material through a mesh: the technique of panning.

語源 3

From place + -er.

名詞

placer (複数形 placers)

1. (Australian, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother died and which transferred its attachment to a nearby locality.

アナグラム

• carpel
• parcel

Latin

動詞

plācer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plācō.