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ditcher

ditcher noun: one who digs ditches.

Noun (1)

ditcher (plural ditchers)

  1. One who digs ditches.
  2. One who ditches, or abandons.
    • a ditcher of perfectly good ideas

Noun (2)

ditcher (plural ditchers)

  1. In the game of bowls, a bowl that rolls off the green into the outer ditch.
    • Should a ditcher in any circumstances return to the green it must be placed on the bank.1920, George Thomas Burrows, Bowls: How to Excel at the Game, page 89

Noun (3) capitalized: Ditcher

Ditcher (plural Ditchers)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete, slang) A European resident of Calcutta.
    • The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it. Hasn't any kind friend told you that she's the most dangerous woman in Simla?”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30

Forms of ditcher

pluralditchers
pluralDitchers

Origin of ditcher

From ditch (verb) + -er.

From ditch (noun) + -er.

From Ditch + -er.

Questions about ditcher

What does ditcher mean?
Ditcher means one who digs ditches.
What part of speech is ditcher?
Ditcher is a noun.
What is the plural of ditcher?
The plural of ditcher is ditchers.

Words near ditcher in the dictionary

  1. ditchdigger
  2. ditchdiggers
  3. ditchdigging
  4. ditched
  5. ditched out
  6. ditcher
  7. ditchers
  8. ditches
  9. ditches out
  10. Ditchfield
  11. Ditchfields

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