Digger

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.

   “The cables are placed from 16 in. to 2 ft. down, and to save time and labour use was made of a mechanical digger lent by the Swedish State Railways.”

2. isim A tool for digging.

   “The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn′t dug any holes for a long, long time.”

3. isim A spade (playing card).
4. isim One who digs.

   “You′ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger with water from a hose, and that hasn′t worked.[…]This step will discourage 99 percent of the diggers.”

5. isim A gold miner, one who digs for gold.

   “A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” − came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.”

6. isim An Australian soldier.

   “Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.”

7. isim a friendly term of address, especially to a man.
8. isim A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians.

   “White men are not usually hanged for killing Chinamen, but Indians who commit such a crime are strung up with little ceremony. Last week a Digger was hung at Jackson, Amador county, for having last summer murdered some Chinamen at Rancheria.”

9. isim A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
10. isim One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
11. isim One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
12. isim A user of the American news aggregator Digg.

    “THANKS TO DIGG, the Web’s most frequented news-ranking site, we now know: Geeks like gaming gossip, incendiary technology policy stories, and NASA photos. Diggers vote early and often, and can get breaking news to the front page surprisingly quickly.”