Noun:

खोदक मशीन, खोदाई का काम करनेवाली मशीन, पैटमैन, खान में काम करनेवाला, खोदनेवाला,

diggers's Usage Examples:

Unfortunately quite a few trees had to go to get the diggers in there.

diggers moved by these poignant finds to hold their own ceremonies?

On the discovery of the "dry diggings" at Kimberley, the majority of the diggers removed thither.

Originally called Klipdrift, the town was the first founded by the diggers after the discovery in 1867 of diamonds along the valley of the Vaal, and it had for some years a large floating population.

1869 gold had been found in the Lydenburg and Zoutpansberg districts in the Transvaal, and diggers had resorted there from different parts of the world; moreover, in the far interior, in the territories of Mashonaland, Thomas Baines had reported discoveries of gold.

Here Tungus diggers were encountered who had extracted handfuls of gold in small nuggets from a stream bed at a depth which they stated to be no greater than 2 ft.

Perhaps its chief value was that it brought many thousand diggers to the colony, most of whom stayed there.

In 1883 the discovery of Moodie's Reef near the Kaap Valley led to a considerable influx of diggers and prospectors from the colonies and Europe, and by 1884 the Sheba Mine had been opened up, and Barberton, with a population of 5000 inhabitants, sprung into existence.

April saw diggers move on to Morfa for on-site investigations.

60 An interesting discovery of the late period in Upper Egypt, that of images and other temple objects of precious metals, was also made at Dendera by the diggers for natron (sebakh) and recovered by the Service des Antiquites for the Cairo Museum.61 Outside Egypt proper the work of editing and publishing all the Egyptian inscriptions of Sinai has been begun by Dr. Gardiner and Mr. Peet.62 A worthy completion of the record is the wonderful exhibition of all the finest examples of Egyptian art in Britain outside the British and Ashmolean Museums, held by the Burlington Fine Arts' Club in London in the summer of 1921.63

Synonyms:

mud digger, trencher, manual laborer, labourer, jack, laborer, ditch digger,

Antonyms:

lower,