digger
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈdɪɡər/
- UK
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excavadora
- The workers operated the digger carefully to dig a trench for the new pipeline.
- posthole digger
- hole digger
- post-hole digger
He also got this big JCB digger.
- He also got this big JCB digger.
Examples
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Let's use the digger.
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Then, with Duck Foot and Randy protecting his six, Digger would lower the line, bring the caving ladder sections up, link 'em together, secure the ladder to the rail, and lower it so the rest of us could make our way onto the catwalk.
Fiction book (2001) -
We're going to slip our hole digger on, slip this part back on and line it up with the holes there.
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We all cheered for the little digger that had to free the Ever Given, and after six days it was free.
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Looks like someone used a posthole digger.
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They needed a digger, so I'm on contract to harvest it for a cut.
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It was a bit tough this morning trying to figure out how to use the little mini digger thing, but he has gotten the hang of it and is zipping around.
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Lucas Choque, the leader of the local excavators' association, stood in a small group of diggers speaking quickly in Aymara, the indigenous language of the Bolivian altiplano.
Academic text (2003) -
The construction site was busy as the digger moved tons of earth to create a foundation.
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To clear the land for the new park, we hired a powerful digger with a large bucket.
Synonyms
13
4.9
A machine that digs with a long arm and a bucket
9
3.9
A large machine with a scoop used for digging and moving earth
5
4.0
A large machine with a long arm and bucket that digs and moves earth
2
5.7
A large machine with a bucket that digs and moves earth in construction and mining
1
4.2
A person or machine that makes long narrow holes for pipes
1
4.2
A large machine that moves soil and rock at construction sites
1
4.1
A large machine with a bucket that digs and moves earth
1
3.5
Machines like diggers and bulldozers that dig and move soil at building or mine sites
1
4.2
A person or machine that digs long narrow trenches to move water
1
4.8
A tool with two long blades for digging narrow deep holes for fence posts
A tool or machine that digs and turns soil for gardening
A person or machine that uses a bucket to move things
Compounds
A wasp that lives alone, digs a nest in soil and brings stung insects for its young to eat
- Offensive
A person who tries to get noticed by being with famous people or doing things to get attention
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Digger comes from the simple verb dig meaning 'to make a hole' and the ending -er meaning 'one or something that does'. Think of a large machine like a giant shovel that 'does the digging', so a digger is a machine that digs earth.