Digger

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Digger \Dig"ger\, n.
     One who, or that which, digs.
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     {Digger wasp} (Zool.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. {Digger}. (Ethnol.)
     A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from
     their practice of digging roots for food.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  digger
       n 1: a laborer who digs
       2: a machine for excavating [syn: {power shovel}, {excavator},
          {shovel}]