单词 | hill-digger |
释义 | > as lemmashill-digger ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > one who digs other structures hill-digger1521 sinker1584 pondcaster1602 navigator1775 dammer1816 navvy1829 muck-shifter1856 1521 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1847) 1 54 Smyth..examyning the same Goodred upon hill digging..; if he wolde not confesse to them that he was an hille digger, he wold thrust his dagar throwe his chekes. 1847 Norfolk Archæol. I. 53–4. 1887 A. Jessopp in 19th Cent. Jan. 56 The hill diggers of the fifteenth century did their work most effectually. < as lemmas |
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