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Diggers

/ ˈdɪɡəz /

plural noun

  1. the Diggers
    a radical English Puritan group, led by Gerrard Winstanley, which advocated communal ownership of land (1649–50)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

From goth dating to plus-size, prisoners to gold diggers, these sites revolve around one thing: honesty.

But he and mephistopheles joined a company of successful diggers going down with their swag.

The gold was found on the carcass, and the diggers went coolly back to their work.

That is what she was called, anyway, by all the diggers on the Newanga.

It is not nurses and grave-diggers hired for money, but the elders of the people, who are eager to perform these acts.

They are hunters and diggers for roots, while the Hottentots, perhaps their kinsmen, are cattle-breeders.

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