Digger

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

digger
    n 1: a laborer who digs
    2: a machine for excavating [syn: {power shovel}, {excavator},
       {digger}, {shovel}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Digger \Dig"ger\, n.
   One who, or that which, digs.
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   {Digger wasp} (Zool.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. {Digger}. (Ethnol.)
   A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from
   their practice of digging roots for food.
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