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Definition of Mud digger
1. Noun. A laborer who digs ditches.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mud Digger
Literary usage of Mud digger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leading Events of Maryland History: With Topical Analyses, References, and by John Montgomery Gambrill, M. Bates Stephens (1904)
"... "mud digger," 1844 From a print : road was completed to Wheeling, on the Ohio
river, and on NewYear'sday, 1853, the first train passed over the road. ..."
2. Reports of Committees by United States Congress. Senate (1874)
"That is the reason that the mud-digger cannot get an opportunity to work. ...
Then it is a contest whether or not at certain times the mud-digger holds the ..."
3. A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases (1880)
"The small stuff used to keep a hook from unhooking. Mouth. The opening of a port
or outlet of a river. Moving-sands. Synonymous with quicksands. Mud-digger. ..."
4. A Dream of the Centuries and Other Entertainments for Parlor and Hall by Elbridge Streeter Brooks, Mary Graham, George Bradford Bartlett, Lucia Chase Pell, Fannie M. Johnson (1889)
"Ain'tI jist as good a mud- digger as anny wan of thim ? ANTONIO. I stucka in de
mudda onca. MICH. How fur in wuz yez ? ANTONIO. Uppa to mya knee. MICH. ..."
5. First Report on the Economic Features of Turtles of Pennsylvania by Harvey Adam Surface (1908)
"... Mud Terrapin, Eastern Mud Turtle, Common Mud Turtle, Pennsylvania Tortoise,
Small Mud Turtle, mud digger, Mush Turtle and Mud Tortoise. ..."
6. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1900)
"During recent investigations at Lower Halstow I learned from a " muddie " (a mud
digger) that some time ago he found an embossed pseudo-Samian bowl, ..."
7. Leading Events of Maryland History: With Topical Analyses, References, and by John Montgomery Gambrill, M. Bates Stephens (1904)
"... "mud digger," 1844 From a print : road was completed to Wheeling, on the Ohio
river, and on NewYear'sday, 1853, the first train passed over the road. ..."
8. Reports of Committees by United States Congress. Senate (1874)
"That is the reason that the mud-digger cannot get an opportunity to work. ...
Then it is a contest whether or not at certain times the mud-digger holds the ..."
9. A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases (1880)
"The small stuff used to keep a hook from unhooking. Mouth. The opening of a port
or outlet of a river. Moving-sands. Synonymous with quicksands. Mud-digger. ..."
10. A Dream of the Centuries and Other Entertainments for Parlor and Hall by Elbridge Streeter Brooks, Mary Graham, George Bradford Bartlett, Lucia Chase Pell, Fannie M. Johnson (1889)
"Ain'tI jist as good a mud- digger as anny wan of thim ? ANTONIO. I stucka in de
mudda onca. MICH. How fur in wuz yez ? ANTONIO. Uppa to mya knee. MICH. ..."
11. First Report on the Economic Features of Turtles of Pennsylvania by Harvey Adam Surface (1908)
"... Mud Terrapin, Eastern Mud Turtle, Common Mud Turtle, Pennsylvania Tortoise,
Small Mud Turtle, mud digger, Mush Turtle and Mud Tortoise. ..."
12. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1900)
"During recent investigations at Lower Halstow I learned from a " muddie " (a mud
digger) that some time ago he found an embossed pseudo-Samian bowl, ..."
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