DIGGER

digger

(noun) a laborer who digs

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

digger (plural diggers)

A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.

A tool for digging.

A spade (playing card).

One who digs.

(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.

(Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.

(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.

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• rigged

Etymology

Noun

Digger (plural Diggers)

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.

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• rigged

Source: Wiktionary


Dig"ger, n.

Definition: One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp (Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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