单词 | potato-digger |
释义 | > as lemmaspotato-digger 3. An instrument for digging, a digging tool; also the digging part of a machine. Also in various combinations as hop-digger, potato-digger, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > digging tool pikeeOE digger1686 mamoty1782 ko1843 changkol1848 yam-stick1863 digging-stick1865 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 353 They weed their Wheat..with an Iron digger. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 308 The digger is best with an arrow-headed point. 1839 A. Gray Lett. (1894) I. 144 He presented me with a beautiful botanical digger of fine polished steel, with a leathern sheath. 1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 155 A short ‘digger’ or hand ‘spud’. 1861 Times 11 July As the engine travels slowly forward, the digger cuts and throws up the soil behind. < as lemmas |
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