[dich-dig-er] 
| 1. | a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, esp. with pick and shovel. |
| 2. | a person engaged in exhausting manual work, esp. work that requires little or no originality. |
| 3. | Also called ditcher, trencher. a power excavating machine designed to remove earth in a continuous line and to a predetermined width and depth, as by means of a rotating belt equipped with scoops. |
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