ditcher.

Definitions

Examples

• A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end.

• But this restless Proteus masqueraded through a score of other characters—as seedsman, harvester, hedger and ditcher, etc.

• As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road.

• We have tried to transform a poet into a mechanic, a blacksmith into an artist, and an astronomer into a ditcher.

• Any comparison between the material comfort of a Kentucky slave and an English ditcher and delver would be preposterous.