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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a laborer who digs
noun a machine for excavating
origin* Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors.
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