digger

IPA: dˈɪgɝ

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.

Examples of "digger" in Sentences

The archaeologist carefully brushed away the dirt surrounding the ancient digger tool
The construction worker revved up the digger and began excavating the new building site
The little boy eagerly grabbed his toy digger and started digging in the sandbox
The digger operator expertly maneuvered the machine, digging trenches for the new pipeline
The treasure hunter used a metal detector to scan the beach, searching for buried artifacts with his trusty digger by his side