Diggers

/ ˈdɪɡəz /

plural noun

1. a radical English Puritan group, led by Gerrard Winstanley, which advocated communal ownership of land (1649–50)

Example Sentences

Mr Haybourne says his team regularly carries out operations at the Port of Dover, to search for stolen cars, caravans, quad bikes, farm vehicles, diggers and other agricultural machinery.

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Over the past few months, various digital diggers and Beltway reporters have uncovered the now-deleted MySpace profile of an aspiring pop artist named “Livvy,” whose photos certainly resemble Nuzzi.

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Flashlight in hand, one worker at a time crawled to the front of the narrow tunnel, loosened earth with a small shovel, and piled it into large metal bowls one of the diggers had brought from his butcher shop.

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As they worked their way forward, diggers passed out from lack of oxygen and had to be dragged back by their heels.

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As they reached the western side, other diggers pulled Jercha out of the hole.

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