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What is the noun for digger?

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digger
  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
  2. A tool for digging.
  3. A spade (playing card).
  4. One who digs.
  5. (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  6. (Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
  7. (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “An enthusiastic fossil digger, he was influenced by his friend James Hutton, though he accepted elements of both Neptunism and Vulcanism.”
      “Marcel ran to the front of the digger to attach the chain so they could use the arm to lift the slabs of rock.”
      “Where are the digger and the spade, this peaceful night, destined to add the last great secret to the many secrets of the Tulkinghorn existence?”
dig
  1. An archeological investigation.
  2. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
  3. A thrust; a poke.
  4. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
  5. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team
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  7. Examples:
    1. “You never know what kind of artifacts we'll uncover at the dig.”
      “A dig in the ribs from my puritanical brother told me when I was going too far.”
      “The verse was also a subtle dig at the way he was ignored for so long on Asteria.”
digging
dug
dugway
  1. (US) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
dig
  1. (medicine) Digoxin.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “You never know what kind of artifacts we'll uncover at the dig.”
      “A dig in the ribs from my puritanical brother told me when I was going too far.”
      “The verse was also a subtle dig at the way he was ignored for so long on Asteria.”
diggings
  1. plural of digging
  2. (dated) accommodation; lodgings
  3. In the US, in the same time period: establishment. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Once the diggings are complete, the trackway will be backfilled with earth again.”
      “After traveling the world for years, I finally found my diggings in a tiny cottage by the seaside.”
      “Indeed, there are long mole-like tunnel diggings criss-crossing everywhere.”
digs
dugways
  1. plural of dugway
diggers
  1. plural of digger
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Everyone affected by the floods will be filled with admiration for the Hovingham diggers.”
      “That first night, and again every night since, I became exposed to a new facet of the jet set lives of the gold diggers.”
      “Mr. Emery said the diggers would look for evidence of a shaft which would be conclusive proof that it was a well.”
dugs
  1. plural of dug
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It gets very long, and then it goes white, a grizzled mat over withered dugs.”
      “The dugs are four, very rarely six, all yielding milk, and none of them dry.”
      “The dugs of the female often become chapped or sore, so as to bleed whenever they are milked.”
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