digger
dig·ger
noun
2.
a machine for excavating
Origin
* Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors.
Phrases
- digger bee
- digger gold
- digger pine
- digger wasp
- Diggers Camp
- Diggers Rest
- food digger
- potato digger
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