society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > digger or excavator > of trenches or ditches (4)
A man who constructs or works at dikes. One who digs ditches or trenches.
A person who makes and repairs ditches.
Military. A person employed as a digger or excavator; a miner, a quarrier. Obsolete.
One who cuts or digs trenches; one who trenches ground.