Digger vs Shovel - What's the difference?
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A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
A tool for digging.
* 2009 , Sharon Bomgaars, The Best Clubhouse Ever ,
A spade (playing card).
One who digs.
* 1997 , Barbara J. Wrede, Civilizing Your Puppy ,
* 2005 , Gary R. Sampson, Dick Wolfsie, Dog Dilemmas: Simple Solutions to Everyday Problems ,
(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
* 1853 , (editor), Household Words , Volume 21,
(Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment .
(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
* 1998 , Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre ,
* 2002 , Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce, Australia's Vietnam War ,
* 2004 , Lisanne Gibson, Joanna Besley, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape ,
A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
(US) A spade.
To move materials with a shovel.
(figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.
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As nouns the difference between digger and shovel
is that digger is a soldier from australia or new zealand while shovel is a hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.As a verb shovel is
to move materials with a shovel.digger
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- The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn?t dug any holes for a long, long time.
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- 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 .
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- Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that?s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.
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- 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.
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- Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
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- For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
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- Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger , to honour their fellow workers.
Derived terms
* gold digger, golddigger * gravedigger * mini diggerAnagrams
* English agent nounsshovel
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(en noun)Derived terms
* put to bed with a shovel * steamshovel * snow shovel * coal shovel * shoveler * shovelfulExternal links
* (wikipedia "shovel")Verb
- The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
- After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
- I don't mind shoveling , but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
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