Digger

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A person or animal that digs.
  • noun. A tool or machine used for digging or excavating.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A soldier from Australia in World War I and World War II.
  • noun. A soldier from New Zealand in World War I.
  • noun. Used as a disparaging term, especially in the 1800s, for a member of any of various Native American peoples of the Great Basin, such as the Utes, Paiutes, and Western Shoshones.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who digs for gold; a gold-miner.
  • noun. A person or an animal that digs; an instrument for digging.
  • noun. [⟨cap.] One of a degraded class of Indians in California, Nevada, and adjacent regions, belonging to several tribes, all more or less intimately connected with the Shoshones: so called because they live chiefly upon roots dug from the ground. Collectively called Digger Indians.
  • noun. plural In entomology, specifically, the hymenopterous insects called digger-wasps or Fossores. See Fossores and digger-wasp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, digs.
  • noun. any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
  • noun. A tool for digging.
  • noun. A spade (playing card).
  • noun. One who digs.
  • noun. A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  • noun. An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
  • noun. An Australian or New Zealand soldier.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a machine for excavating
  • noun. a laborer who digs
  • Word Usage
    "At the risk of sounding all tin-foil-hatty it may be because the dirty digger is terrified of genuine competition."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bigger  nigger  rigor  trigger  vigor  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    auger  miner  prospector