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Meanings of digger in English
A machine used to dig the ground and to lift and carry dirt and debris.
A vehicle that consists of a tractor fitted with a shovel on the front and a small backhoe on the back.
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Examples for "shovel"
Examples for "shovel"
1
If Molly needed help with the shovel work, Ali would step in.
2
An aide said: It is a misnomer to talk about shovel-ready projects.
3
Others just need some small tools like a saw or a shovel.
4
During the recession, Hillwood bought shovel-ready land from cash strapped home builders.
5
Rose saw Sam coming up the hill, a shovel in one hand.
1
It had left a trail of destruction wider than a tunnel excavator.
2
An excavator was hotwired and turned into a sort of armoured car.
3
Instead the only activity is a bulldozer and excavator reshaping the shoreline.
4
Once the excavator was through the top layers, the dig progressed quickly.
5
Steve Lyon said last month's trial used an excavator with a rake bucket.
1
The shovellers clambered into the cars and the steam power shovels helped the torrent along.
2
The coal veins were shallow there, and the power shovels could attack from the surface.
3
Great power shovels scooped load after load of earth.
Usage of digger in English
1
Five minutes' walk along the tracks from the station lived a well-digger.
2
For years, every digger on the planet was drooling for a permit.
3
The grave-digger was staring into the hole with all his bulging eyes.
4
Dimple was there, working a posthole digger at the parking lot's edge.
5
Everybody knew that Grandfather Mole was the champion digger of Pleasant Valley.
6
They went over to where the grave-digger was watching them with curiosity.
7
He mainly drives a digger and his son Johnny runs the company.
8
The demonstrators ended up nicking a digger and destroying a nearby road.
9
I wondered if maybe a grave digger could have dropped it in.
10
Every digger, as he came from the cage, made for this spot.
11
So far as I know, not one digger had turned to work.
12
Erskine swung into the cab of the digger in one ape stride.
13
The metal of the gate flashed sparks as the digger chugged through.
14
Yes, he was a lucky digger, and he was enjoying his luck.
15
That night Aurora-surnamed Australis by a facetious digger-wasparticularly attentive to Done.
16
He picked up his torch, climbed out of the digger and descended.
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