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Definition of Ditch digger
1. Noun. A laborer who digs ditches.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ditch Digger
Literary usage of Ditch digger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farm Drainage: The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with by Henry Flagg French (1859)
"Pipe-laying Illustrated.—Pickaxes.—Drain Gauge.—Drain Plows, and Ditch-Diggers.
— Fowler's Drain Plow. — Pratt's Ditch-Digger. — McEwan's Drain Plow. ..."
2. The Child-lore Dramatic Reader by Catherine Turner Bryce (1908)
"First ditch digger: See that Johnny Cake running along the road! Second Ditch
Digger: He would make a good breakfast for us. Let us catch him. ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1908)
"My old friend WW Black, who used to be in Champaign, told me this story: He said,
over near Champaign, there was an old Irishman over there, a ditch digger. ..."
4. The Evolution of Banking: A Study of the Development of the Credit System by Robert Harrison Howe (1915)
"While the ditch is being dug the shoemaker makes a pair of shoes, and offers them
to the ditch digger as compensation for his work. ..."
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