1860 7 July 28/2 John Lee, of Bolivar, Ohio, for an Improvement in Post-hole Diggers: I claim, first, The hollow self-discharging digger, constructed and operating as set forth.
1985 D. Conner iii. viii. 237 My job was to dig holes five feet..deep for the telegraph poles. I used a seven foot..crowbar to break the soil and a long-handled posthole digger.