Digger

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person or animal that digs: a digger of gardens; a digger for information.
  • n. A tool or machine used for digging or excavating.
  • n. Informal A soldier from Australia in World War I and World War II.
  • n. Informal A soldier from New Zealand in World War I.
  • n. Offensive Used as a disparaging term, especially in the 19th century, for a member of any of various Native American peoples of the Great Basin, such as the Utes, Paiutes, and Western Shoshones.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
  • n. A tool for digging.
  • n. A spade (playing card).
  • n. One who digs.
  • n. A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  • n. An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
  • n. An Australian or New Zealand soldier.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, digs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A person or an animal that digs; an instrument for digging.
  • n. [⟨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.
  • n. plural In entomology, specifically, the hymenopterous insects called digger-wasps or Fossores. See Fossores and digger-wasp.
  • n. One who digs for gold; a gold-miner.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a machine for excavating
  • n. a laborer who digs
  • Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bigger    nigger    rigor    trigger    vigor    wigger   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prospector    miner    auger