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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person or animal that digs: a digger of gardens; a digger for information.
  2. n. A tool or machine used for digging or excavating.
  3. n. Informal A soldier from Australia in World War I and World War II.
  4. n. Informal A soldier from New Zealand in World War I.
  5. n. Offensive Used as a disparaging term, especially in the 19th century, for a member of any of various Native American peoples of the Great Basin, such as the Utes, Paiutes, and Western Shoshones.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person or an animal that digs; an instrument for digging.
  2. n. [⟨cap.] One of a degraded class of Indians in California, Nevada, and adjacent regions, belonging to several tribes, all more or less intimately connected with the Shoshones: so called because they live chiefly upon roots dug from the ground. Collectively called Digger Indians.
  3. n. plural In entomology, specifically, the hymenopterous insects called digger-wasps or Fossores. See Fossores and digger-wasp.
  4. n. One who digs for gold; a gold-miner.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches； an excavator.
  2. n. A tool for digging.
  3. n. A spade (playing card).
  4. n. One who digs.
  5. n. Australia, obsolete A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  6. n. Australia, dated An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
  7. n. Australia An Australian or New Zealand soldier.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who, or that which, digs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a machine for excavating
  2. n. a laborer who digs

Etymologies

  1. Derived from dig. (Wiktionary)
  2. Sense 3, from their use of digging sticks as foraging tools. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. bigger
  1. nigger
  1. rigor
  1. trigger
  1. vigor
  1. wigger

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. trencher
  2. digger
  3. potato-harvester
  4. ammophila
  5. pine
  6. gravedigger
  7. fossor
  1. grab-machine
  2. mud-lighter
  3. mellinidæ
  4. mud-dauber
  5. pemphredoninæ
  6. potato-scoop
  7. bull-tongue
  1. cicada-killer
  2. bembecinæ
  3. bembex
  4. banker
  5. potato-plow
  6. sphecidae
  7. family sphecidae
  1. miner
  2. blue-jacket
  3. collier
  4. dolichurus
  5. fossores
  6. heterogyna
  7. philanthus
  1. sand-bug
  2. sand wasp
  3. sapyga
  4. silphid
  5. sphecius
  6. sphegidæ
  7. sphex
  1. bucket
  2. tiphia

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  • knitandpurl "And he'd lost his postcard from Egypt, the one he got from his dad's cousin, Earl. Back in '43 he wrote a letter to cheer up a digger. He addressed it: Earl Blunt, EGYPT, and it found him, just as he assumed it would. And a card came back, an exotic picture from another world. He'd stuck it somewhere secret and had bamboozled himself with his own cunning."
    Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 46 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition Mar 27, 2010

  • tbtabby An excellent webcomic. Jun 19, 2009

  • bilby Australian slang - an Australian soldier, especially a uniformed recruit of the Army. Apr 25, 2008

  • travismcdermott c1400 Promp. Parv. 118/1 Deluar or dyggar, fossor. Apr 25, 2008

  • john In New England, "take a digger" means to fall down. Dec 30, 2007

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