mud digger
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Definition
- Noun:
- A laborer who digs ditches: A person whose job involves excavating or creating trenches, typically for drainage, irrigation, or construction purposes.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- The construction crew hired a mud digger to prepare the foundation's drainage system.
- Before modern machinery, a mud digger would do all the trench work by hand.
Advanced Usage
- The term can imply physically demanding, manual labor often performed in difficult, muddy conditions.
- The project required the resilience of an experienced mud digger, as the soil was saturated from the rains.
Variants and Related Words
- Ditchdigger (n): A direct synonym for a laborer who digs ditches.
- Excavator (n): A person or machine that digs earth. This is a more general and modern term.
- Navvy (n, chiefly British): A laborer employed in building roads, canals, or railways.
Synonyms
- Ditchdigger: A laborer who digs ditches.
- Laborer: A person doing unskilled manual work.
- Trencher: A person who digs trenches.
Related Phrases
- To dig ditches: The action performed by a mud digger.
- His first job was to dig ditches for a local farmer.
Noun
- a laborer who digs ditches