His work may take him underground

Usage examples of ditchdigger.

His move was no more theatrical than the move a ditchdigger might make reaching for his shovel.

All men laughed at him but oneKanshin, who bethought him that if a ditchdigger could slip through the Law to become a master-thief, could not a renegade mage slip through the Law as well to retain his magic?

Retzak resumed his pattern of thievery and transitory labor, working as a ditchdigger, a cook, a janitor at a school, even a foot-courier for a small independent bank.

Walham Hill, Merrick refused to employ so much as a ditchdigger without eyeing him across a pint of porter or a tot of whisky first.

What happens when all the janitors and garbage men and ditchdiggers and assembly-line workers decide to quit?

If there were justice, ditchdiggers would be millionaires, and ballplayers would be half a paycheck above the poverty level.

The lowest dung shovellers and ditchdiggers bend their backs to their tasks, for every shovelful adds to Cursrah's coffers and prestige.