Noun

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

Etymology 2

Noun

1. 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.

Noun

1. A lamb whose mother died and which transferred its attachment to a nearby locality.