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digger (iou)



digger noun. LME.
[from DIG verb + -ER1.]
gen. A person who or animal which digs. LME.
b. A miner, esp. one who searches for gold. M16.
c. English History. A member of a short-lived 17th-cent. radical Puritan group which believed in communal ownership of land and began cultivating commons. M17.
d. A N. American Indian of any of several tribes who subsisted chiefly on roots. M19.
e. A person who digs for archaeological purposes. E20.
(A part of) a tool or machine for digging. L17.
More fully digger wasp. A wasp that burrows in the soil; esp. any of several usu. solitary wasps of the superfamily Sphecoidea. M19.
An Australian or New Zealander, esp. a private soldier. Freq. as a form of address: mate, pal. colloq. E20.
Comb.: digger's delight Austral. a speedwell, Veronica perfoliata, supposed to indicate the presence of gold; digger wasp: see sense 3 above.