digger
IPA: dˈɪgɝ
noun
- A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
- A tool for digging.
- A spade (playing card).
- One who digs.
- (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
- (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
- (Australia, dated, by extension) a friendly term of address, especially to a man.
- A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
- (historical) One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
- (obsolete, derogatory) One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
- (Internet) A user of the American news aggregator Digg.
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Examples of "digger" in Sentences
- They are also known as clam diggers.
- For a digger you need to dig a moat.
- The anteater is the symbol of Digger.
- I am not a gold digger and never was.
- And enable the digger to twist on or off.
- In this version the grave digger is absent.
- He is often characterized as a digger wasp.
- This is the line which the digger will dig to.
- They are substrate diggers and will uproot plants.
- He was an excellent digger and the grandfather of Togget.
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