Hypertext Webster Gateway: "digger"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Digger \Dig"ger\, n.
One who, or that which, digs.
{Digger wasp} (Zo["o]l.), any one of the fossorial
Hymenoptera.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. {Digger}. (Ethnol.)
A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from
their practice of digging roots for food.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
digger
n 1: a laborer who digs
2: a machine for excavating [syn: {power shovel}, {excavator},
{shovel}]
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