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digger

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digger
a tool or part of a machine used for excavation, esp a mechanical digger fitted with a head for digging trenches
digger [′dig·ər]
(engineering)
A tool or apparatus for digging in the ground.
(mining engineering)
A person who digs in the ground; usually refers to a coal miner.
excavator
Any of a number of power-driven machines used to dig, move, and transport earth, gravel, etc.
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For the most odious weeks I had been a licensed digger on Black Hill Flats; and I had actually failed to make running expenses.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
It means grasshopper soup, the favorite dish of the Digger tribe,--and of the Pi-utes as well.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my credentials as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time i have been a stone-mason, and also a great digger of ditches, canals, and wells, wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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