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digger

/ˈdɪɡɚ/ sustantivo C2
  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
  2. A tool for digging.
  3. A spade (playing card). (slang)
  4. One who digs.
  5. A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians. (US, dated, slang)

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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 216 · C1
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 Count of Monte Cristo, p. 216 · C1
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 217 · C1
An exclamation of satisfaction indicated that the grave-digger had found the object of his search.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 219 · C1

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