Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which digs ditches.
- noun A ditch-machine.
- noun In lawnbowls, a ball which runs off the field of play into the surrounding gutter or ditch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who digs ditches.
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- noun
Agent noun ofditch ; one who ditches (usually in the sense of a digger of ditches, or one who habitually abandons).
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Examples
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Suffenus, O no ditcher e'er appeared more rude,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Suffenus, O no ditcher e'er appeared more rude,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Him her first lap, her his fast pal, for ditcher for plower, till deltas twoport.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him, in a great house and spacious and beautiful demesne, he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.
Lay Morals 2005
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It wasn't their fault our rescue mission had been such a total ditcher.
The Angel Experiment Patterson, James, 1947- 2005
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The hedger and ditcher must make his hedge clean and clean his ditch even though he be tormented by rheumatism.
The Duke's Children 2004
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‘No, Silverbridge; — I said no such thing; but that if he were a hedger and ditcher the bread and cheese would be as good.’
The Duke's Children 2004
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‘It was because for the time you had been a hedger and ditcher.’
The Duke's Children 2004
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The orderly stayed with me, as if he took as much care of this dead man as any screaming ditcher with a sickle through his leg.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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One can imagine an ideal servent who serves out of pure love for his master, just as one can an ideal rustic who remains a ditcher from a love of nature, or an ideal fricatrice who spreads her legs a dozen times a night from a love of copulation.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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