Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
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- noun Plural form of
digger .
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Maybe it's not OK to reduce the role of digg to social bookmarking, but to deny a fact just because they are diggers is too much ...
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Sprouting from the sandboxes are "diggers" - think shovels and rakes - that can be operated sitting down from a wheelchair.
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Sprouting from the sandboxes are "diggers" - think shovels and rakes - that can be operated sitting down from a wheelchair.
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The diggers were a sombre, preoccupied race, little given to lip-work.
Australia Felix 2003
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The diggers were a family of an old grey-bearded father, Suleiman, and his two sons, Yacob and Hussein.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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The diggers were a family of an old grey-bearded father, Suleiman, and his two sons, Yacob and Hussein.
A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950
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All that met the eyes of the diggers was a series of circular low mounds, about sixty in number, extending over an area of three acres.
English Villages 1892
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"The fact that the diggers are a sight too many for us," returned Goff.
Twice Bought 1859
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Hydraulic Excavators Hydraulic Excavators (also known as diggers or earth movers) are extremely large equipments utilized for multiple operations ….
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Opposition leader Tony Abbott's popularity sagged this month after he declined to visit the "diggers" in southern Afghanistan with the prime minister.
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