1. a person whose job is to dig ditches, especially for drainage or irrigation
Usage: often used literally to describe manual laborers; can be used informally or pejoratively to refer to unskilled labor

Examples

• The ditchdigger worked all day in the hot sun to prepare the field for irrigation.
• His father was a ditchdigger who worked on road construction projects.
• The crew of ditchdiggers completed the drainage system before the rainy season.
• She didn't want her son to become a ditchdigger like his grandfather.
• The ditchdigger used a shovel and pickaxe to break through the hard ground.