Dig|ger

dig|ger «DIHG uhr», noun.

1. a person or thing that digs.

2. the part of a machine that turns up the ground.

3. any tool for digging.

4. Informal. an Australian or New Zealander (a nickname used especially in World War I).

Dig|ger¹ «DIHG uhr», noun.

a member of a tribe or group of North American Indians who lived on roots dug from the ground or on the nuts of the Digger pine.

Dig|ger² «DIHG uhr», noun.

any one of a group of hippies devoted to helping others, especially other hippies, as by giving them free food and clothing.

╂[< Diggers, a group of English idealists of the 1600's who applied communistic principles to agriculture, digging and planting public lands]