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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. It means grasshopper soup, the favorite dish of the Digger tribe,--and of the Pi-utes as well. 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. |
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