Crossword clues for prospector
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prospector \Pros"pect*or\, n. [L., one who looks out.] One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also prospecter, 1846 in the mining sense; agent noun from prospect (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A person who explores or prospects an area in search of mineral deposits, such as gold.
WordNet
n. someone who explores an area for mineral deposits
Wikipedia
Prospector may mean:
- Prospecting, exploring an area for natural resources such as minerals, oil, flora or fauna
- Prospector (library catalog), a unified catalog for Colorado and Wyoming
- Prospector (train), a passenger train operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad
- Prospector (spacecraft), a planned lunar probe, canceled in 1962
The Prospector was a passenger train operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah. There were two incarnations of the train: a streamlined, diesel multiple unit train that operated briefly from 1941 to 1942; and a locomotive-hauled train of conventional passenger equipment that operated from 1945 until 1967.
Prospector was a proposed lunar probe that was intended to be flown in support of the Apollo lunar missions.
Prospector arose as a result of President John F. Kennedy's desire to rehabilitate the tarnished image of US spaceflight. In 1961, NASA proposed a series of unmanned probes, including Prospector, to be managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Prospector was based on a study that had been performed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in June 1960, to determine what lunar missions could be achieved using the Saturn I rocket.
NASA envisioned Prospector as "a large versatile 'space truck'" that could be launched by a Saturn rocket and that could soft-land on the Moon with a wide variety of payloads. Among the applications envisioned were:
- a remote-controlled lunar rover that could explore large areas of the lunar surface, including the far side of the Moon;
- a system to obtain lunar samples and return them to Earth;
- low-altitude survey of the lunar surface for reconnaissance and to help select landing sites for the later Apollo missions, using large propellant tanks to allow the spacecraft to hover and laterally move over the lunar surface; and
- As an unmanned resupply spacecraft, providing supplies and materials to lunar astronauts.
Prospector was initially planned to have its first launch between 1963 and 1966. However, as plans progressed, the project ran into weight overruns, requiring a larger launcher such as the Saturn V. It also began to change its role from being in support of the Apollo missions to more of a substitute, and NASA's Space Task Group did not support it. The project was canceled in 1962.
Usage examples of "prospector".
She and James had done well in California, not from panning gold but from selling beef to the prospectors in the blossoming gold rush towns.
Pinacate the old prospector had located the dim blue Gulf, and the mountain, San Pedro del Martir, and then, away to the southward, three round hills.
By use of the pedometers we had retraced our way to the prospector with ease and accuracy.
One night Quath passed a gang of miners and prospectors as she returned alone to the communal webbing, down the inert gray arterial corridors.
I dwelt in the drear expanses of the Cactus Mountains, employed as a common labourer at the celebrated Norton Mine, whose discovery by an aged prospector some years before had turned the surrounding region from a nearly unpeopled waste to a seething cauldron of sordid life.
And so it was decided that I should return in the prospector, which still lay upon the edge of the forest at the point where we had first penetrated to the surface of the inner world.
Away out in the backblocks in the borderland of savagery, the skin-hunters, drovers, station-hands, prospectors and other adventurous vagrants heard the rumours of the invasion which spread like wild-fire to the loneliest camps.
Thus it came that after the little affair on Barcoo racecourse, Red Dempsey, the shearer, who had seconded Spider Ryan, nearly came to blows with Bluey Cavanagh, prospector and ex-prize-fighter who had seconded Brand.
New Spain, prospectors who ventured north into dangerous indio country, where the savage Chichimeca were unconquered.
Shortly after Jerkline Jo left the beauty parlor of Lucy Dalles, mischievously bent on giving Ragtown a harmless little shock, Al Drummond sidled up to the old prospector at the bar in the Palace Dance Hall.
Its lights, glowing circular globes floating weightlessly near the ceiling, shone down on traders, prospectors, adventurers, bounty hunters, whores, gamblers, all the flotsam and jetsom of the Inner Frontier, as they gathered around the burnished chrome bar and the gaming tables.
There was no gap between their pegs into which another prospector could jump.
In March 1912, Frank Chettleburgh, a prospector, was staking claims in the Stikine country aided by a Kispiox Indian guide.
In 1938, the Yellowknife Prospector published it and attributed it to a riverboat crew in 1919.
Nobody was likely to come visitingthe next nearest rogue comets would be on the order of tens of astronomical units awaybut if some prospector equipped with a blinker program did happen to come blundering by, all he would see would be a piece of property that some other developer had got to first.