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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
- A tool for digging.
- A spade (playing card).
- One who digs.
- (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
- (Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
- (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
Exempel
- The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn′t dug any holes for a long, long time.
- You′ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger with water from a hose, and that hasn′t worked.[...]This step will discourage 99 percent of the diggers.
- Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that′s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.
- A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” − came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.
- Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
- For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
- Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger, to honour their fellow workers.
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