| Any comparison between the material comfort of a Kentucky slave and an English ditcher and delver would be preposterous. |
| A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end. |
| The necessary occupation of a ditcher prepares him to work in the trenches, and to fortify a camp, as well as to inclose a field. |
| If you weren't such a ditcher and going off to those parties and getting drunk, then mom wouldn't yell at you! |
| As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road. |
| Part of the scheme, the Fenton Floodplains Project, enlisted the help of the RSPB's giant American big wheel rotary ditcher to carve out new habitats. |
