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# digger

«digger» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large machine with a big metal bucket on an arm, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a digger, diggers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A digger is a large machine with a big metal bucket on an arm, used for digging holes and moving earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#m1)

2) A digger is also a person or animal that digs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life diggers work on building sites and roads; young children love toy diggers. In nature lessons moles, rabbits and wombats are good diggers. In Australia and New Zealand «digger» is also a friendly word for a soldier. Safety: stay away from moving diggers on building sites. Phrases: a toy digger, a mechanical digger, a gold digger.

### examples

- The digger scooped up a big pile of earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#x1)
- My little brother plays with his toy digger in the sandpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#x2)
- Moles are excellent diggers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#x3)
- We watched the digger dig a hole for the new pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#x4)
- The digger driver waved to us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#x5)
- Keep away from the digger while it is working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#x6)
- Wombats are strong diggers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/#x7)

### note

Countable: a digger, diggers (double g). From «dig» + «-er». In the USA a big digger is often called an excavator or backhoe.

### In the corpora

- [Diggers swing round and their drivers cannot see behind them; never go onto a building site, and keep behind the fences.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «digger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.