ditcher

• At a pause of his strenuous performance, Scott took occasion to explain that John of Skye was a recent acquisition to the rising hamlet of Abbotstown; that the man was a capital hedger and ditcher, and only figured with the pipe and philabeg on high occasions in the after-part of the day; "but indeed," he added, laughing, "I fear John will soon be discovering that the hook and mattock are unfavorable to his chanter hand." —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• I have known a Mortimer who was a hedger and ditcher, a Berners who was born in a workhouse, and a descendant of the De Burghs who bore the falcon, mending old kettles, and making horse and pony shoes in a dingle Odd enough," said the jockey; "but you were saying you knew one Berners--man or woman? —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
• As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 (of 8)
• The dress befitted the fate From the friendly old ditcher, Israel learned the exact course he must steer for London; distant now between seventy and eighty miles. —  Israel Potter
• Unfortunately in exchanging clothes with the ditcher, he could not bring himself to include his shirt in the traffic, which shirt was a British navy shirt, a bargeman's shirt, and though hitherto he had crumpled the blue collar ought of sight, yet, as it appeared in the present instance, it was not thoroughly concealed. —  Israel Potter

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