ditcher

[ dich-er ]

noun

1. a person who digs ditches.
2. a person who ditches.
3. ditchdigger ( def 3 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of ditcher¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, ditcher is from the Middle English word dicher. See ditch, -er ¹

Example Sentences

A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end.

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But this restless Proteus masqueraded through a score of other characters—as seedsman, harvester, hedger and ditcher, etc.

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As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road.

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We have tried to transform a poet into a mechanic, a blacksmith into an artist, and an astronomer into a ditcher.

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Any comparison between the material comfort of a Kentucky slave and an English ditcher and delver would be preposterous.

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