Crossword clues for digger
digger
- Collier to ride about astride horse
- One who appreciates person employed in excavation
- Familiar address for Australian miner
- Australian girl getting good at German
- Construction site sight
- Word with "clam" or "gold"
- Spade wielder
- One with a spade in one's hand
- Former Notre Dame coach Phelps
- Backhoe, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Digger \Dig"ger\, n. One who, or that which, digs.
Digger wasp (Zo["o]l.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "one who digs," agent noun from dig (v.). The communistic movement in England so called from 1649.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator. 2 A tool for digging. 3 A spade (playing card). 4 One who digs. 5 (context Australia obsolete English) A gold miner, one who digs for gold. 6 (context Australia dated English) An informal nickname for a friend; ''used as a term of endearment''. 7 (context Australia informal English) An Australian soldier.
WordNet
n. a laborer who digs
a machine for excavating [syn: power shovel, excavator, shovel]
Wikipedia
Digger is a computer game released by Canadian developer Windmill Software in 1983 for the IBM PC. Digger is similar in design to the 1982 arcade game Mr. Do!. Digger was developed by Rob Sleath, the primary developer of Windmill games. In 1984, Digger was converted to run on IBM PCjr and IBM JX, the Japanese version. The last original version was released for Hyperion, a Canadian computer running at 6 MHz.
Digger HD is an enhanced remake of Digger developed by Creat Studios. It was released on October 1, 2009 for PlayStation 3.
Digger is a military slang term for soldiers from Australia and New Zealand. Evidence of its use has been found in those countries as early as the 1850s, but its current usage in a military context did not become prominent until World War I, when Australian and New Zealand troops began using it on the Western Front around 1916–17. Evolving out of its usage during the war, the term has been linked to the concept of the Anzac legend, but within a wider social context, it is linked to the concept of "egalitarian mateship".
"Digger" is the first episode of the second series of British TV sitcom Bottom. It was first broadcast on 1 October 1992.
Digger is a pop punk band from Pennsylvania, signed to Hopeless Records.
Digger is a 1993 Canadian comedy-drama film starring Leslie Nielsen, Adam Hann-Byrd, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Williams, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Nielsen. The film premiered on September 30, 1993 at the Vancouver International Film Festival. The Film was released in Canada on April 22, 1994.
Digger or diggers may refer to:
Digger is a nickname for:
- John Barnes (footballer) (born 1963), Jamaican-born English former footballer and manager
- Arthur Brown (footballer born 1859) (1859–1909), English footballer
- Duane G. Carey (born 1957), former NASA astronaut and retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel
- Al Cervi (1917–2009), American National Basketball League and National Basketball Association player and coach
- Digger Dawson (1905–?), English footballer
- Dale DeGray (born 1963), former National Hockey League player
- Paul Diggin (born 1985), English rugby union player
- William James (soldier) (1930–2015), Australian Army major general
- Digger Kettle (1922–1999), English footballer
- Peter Martin (cricketer) (born 1968), English former cricketer
- Billy O'Dell (born 1833), former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ken Phelps (born 1954), former Major League Baseball player
- Digger Phelps (born 1941), American basketball coach and sportscaster
- Digger Robertson (William Robertson, 1861–1938), Australian cricketer
- Digger Stanley (1876–1919), English boxer
- William 'Digger' Thomas (1890–1953), Australian rules footballer
Usage examples of "digger".
Tell your diggers that they will be earning first pick of the virgins inside.
See um put in pegs, dig tlench, quite esure, no foolee me, allee samee digger.
They trapped him at the audience window, where the rulers of Hest were wont to throw coins or gems to the diggers on feast days.
Some of those who were diggers of trenches and hewers of cisterns said that it was their work which had wrought the change.
Digger had remained with Jark while Matt had been out directing combat.
Instead of continuing the chase of the sedan, he had come swiftly to this house on the chance that Jark and Digger had lingered too long.
I heard Theblaw assure Jark that he and Digger would see that Baird was at the new place.
Meet Digger, ten years old and my devoted friend, and Moggy, who adopted us several years ago.
A government cart was, of course, ready in the gully below, and in less than five minutes the whole stock of grog, some two hundred pounds sterling worth, or five hundred pounds worth in nobblers, was carted up to the Camp, before the teeth of some hundreds of diggers, who had now collected round about.
I believe that Victoria was saved from a great deal of the disorganization, rowdyism, and lynch-law of the early days in California by the imposition of a considerable licence-fee on diggers.
For example, most of the Homo erectus discoveries reported by von Koenigswald in Java were made by native diggers, who, unlike Parodi, did not leave the fossils in situ but sent them in crates to von Koenigswald, who often stayed in places far from the sites.
Koenigswald in Java were made by native diggers, who, unlike Parodi, did not leave the fossils in situ but sent them in crates to von Koenigswald, who often stayed in places far from the sites.
Crawling on his hands and knees, Summet saw that that diggers at the bottom were strewn on the white like black pick-up sticks, each man holding on in the hope that the shaking would stop.
His chest was weakBitterbean said that diggers had lungs like sea sponges soaked in tarand the going was slow for many days.
There was no kin feeling between diggers and gomin, and Vod was acutely aware of their eyes following him as he wound through their local ways.