digger

Signification (Anglais)

1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
2. A tool for digging.
3. (slang) A spade (playing card).
4. One who digs.
5. (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
6. (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
7. (Australia, broadly, dated) a friendly term of address, especially to a man.

Concepts

pelleteuse

terrassier

excavatrice

pelle mécanique

dragueur

mineur

pelle

excavateur

bateau dragueur

drague

fouilleur

plantoir

tractopelle

chargeuse-pelleteuse

Synonymes

excavator

miner

navvy

power shovel

shovel

ditcher

backhoe

bagger

spade

prospector

pioneer

scraper

tiller

trencher

dredge boat

one who digs

unskilled labourer

backhoe loader

drag boat

shovelman

ground-man

mining machine

excavator

archaeologist

navvy

bucket

🪣

burrower

dipper

dredge

dredger

extractor

grubber

hoe

investigator

Traductions

Bagger

scavatore

excavadora

excavadora

pala excavadora

graafmachine

Gräber

حفار

zappatore

excavador

soldato australiano

scavatrice

حفارة

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈdɪɡɚ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: dyggar

In summary

From Middle English dyggar, equivalent to dig + -er.
In the sense of "Australian soldier", attributed to the considerable time that soldiers spent digging trenches during World War I.