ditcher
AmericanEtymology
Origin of ditcher
First recorded in 1350–1400, ditcher is from the Middle English word dicher. See ditch, -er 1
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With strong ploughshares no man the earth did cleave, The ditcher no marks on the ground did leave.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
From the friendly old ditcher, Israel learned the exact course he must steer for London; distant now between seventy and eighty miles.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
Besides this, Higgins and Payne cruised the drowned land and ran the lines where the ditches were to be dug when the ditcher should arrive.
From The Plunderer by Henry Oyen
We have tried to transform a poet into a mechanic, a blacksmith into an artist, and an astronomer into a ditcher.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
In very truth, I half wish that he could now be stripped of his all, and compelled to become hedger and ditcher.
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
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