digger
/ˈdɪɡɚ/ noun C2- A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
- A tool for digging.
- A spade (playing card).
- One who digs.
- A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians.
Plural diggers
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If while he was being carried out the grave-diggers should discover that they were bearing a live instead of a dead body, Dantès did not intend to give them time to recognize him, but with a sudden cut of the knife, he meant to open the sack from top to bottom, and, profiting by their alarm, escape; if they tried to catch him, he would use his knife to better purpose.
If they took him to the cemetery and laid him in a grave, he would allow himself to be covered with earth, and then, as it was night, the grave-diggers could scarcely have turned their backs before he would have worked his way through the yielding soil and escaped.
The footsteps—they were double—paused at the door—and Dantès guessed that the two grave-diggers had come to seek him—this idea was soon converted into certainty, when he heard the noise they made in putting down the hand-bier.
An exclamation of satisfaction indicated that the grave-digger had found the object of his search.
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