WordNet
n. a shovel used to sink postholes [syn: post-hole digger]
Usage examples of "posthole digger".
She'd put on her own pair of gloves, then grabbed Arky's posthole digger.
Arky Arkanian was actually in the shed when this happened, putting his posthole digger back on its pegs, and it scared the hell out of him.
In the shed near the dread saw were a battered fence stretcher, a posthole digger, and a sledgehammer.
After Jingo left I got in the car and drove over to the Heath farm, intending to ask him if he could loan me his posthole digger for a day or two.
A tractor with a dozer blade and a spiraled posthole digger had planted a set of tall water-distillation stacks, which were dripping into a fauceted plastic reservoir.
Creed got there that morning, the two Voth brothers were a-busying themselves with a posthole digger and some locust stakes, a-putting in a line of posts for a fence, right up against the edge of that very trail of Mr.
Retief pointed out, nodding toward a posthole digger which was fruitlessly poking at the end of the beam which had trapped its fellow.