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:#[[Australia]]n and [[New Zealand]] slang term for a soldier: [[Digger (soldier)]] |
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:#[[Australia]]n term for a gold miner (on the 'diggings') during the [[gold rush]]es of the 1850s - origin of previous meaning |
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:#The name of a computer program: [[Digger (computer game)]] |
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:#An [[engineering vehicle]]: [[Excavator]] |
:#An [[engineering vehicle]]: [[Excavator]] |
Revision as of 22:16, 17 June 2005
Digger and Diggers can have a number of different meanings:
Digger
- Australian and New Zealand slang term for a soldier: Digger (soldier)
- Australian term for a gold miner (on the 'diggings') during the gold rushes of the 1850s - origin of previous meaning
- The name of a computer program: Digger (computer game)
- An engineering vehicle: Excavator
- An obsolete derogatory term for the Native Americans of California
- The Digger Song found under 'Land Rights' on the List of protest songs.
Diggers
- A democratic utopian group of radicals during the English Civil War: Diggers (True Levellers)
- An American anarchist movement: Diggers (theater)
- Diggers, the second book in The Bromeliad trilogy by Terry Pratchett