ditcher

Definitions

noun A ditch-machine.
noun In lawnbowls, a ball which runs off the field of play into the surrounding gutter or ditch.
noun One who or that which digs ditches.

noun Agent noun of ditch; one who ditches (usually in the sense of a digger of ditches, or one who habitually abandons).

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Suffenus, O no ditcher e'er appeared more rude,

Poems and Fragments 2006
Suffenus, O no ditcher e'er appeared more rude,

Poems and Fragments 2006
Him her first lap, her his fast pal, for ditcher for plower, till deltas twoport.

Finnegans Wake 2006
He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him, in a great house and spacious and beautiful demesne, he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

Lay Morals 2005
It wasn't their fault our rescue mission had been such a total ditcher.

The Angel Experiment Patterson, James, 1947- 2005
The hedger and ditcher must make his hedge clean and clean his ditch even though he be tormented by rheumatism.

The Duke's Children 2004
‘No, Silverbridge; — I said no such thing; but that if he were a hedger and ditcher the bread and cheese would be as good.’

The Duke's Children 2004
‘It was because for the time you had been a hedger and ditcher.’

The Duke's Children 2004
The orderly stayed with me, as if he took as much care of this dead man as any screaming ditcher with a sickle through his leg.

A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
One can imagine an ideal servent who serves out of pure love for his master, just as one can an ideal rustic who remains a ditcher from a love of nature, or an ideal fricatrice who spreads her legs a dozen times a night from a love of copulation.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980