- digger - a laborer who digs
--1 is a kind of laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
--1 has particulars: ditch digger, mud digger; trencherDerived form: verb dig2 - power shovel, excavator, digger, shovel - a machine for excavating
--2 is a kind of machine
--2 has particulars: backhoe; dredge; steam shovelDerived forms: verb dig2, verb dig1