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Posthole digger   /pˈoʊsthˌoʊl dˈɪgər/   Listen
Posthole digger

noun
1.
A shovel used to sink postholes.  Synonym: post-hole digger.






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"Posthole digger" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this cavity was uniformly 7 inches across; above this it slightly expanded, funnel-like, to a diameter of 8 inches at the top. The sides of this, as of all of them, large or small, were as smooth and hard as if made with a posthole digger or a boring tool. Strata of ashes, not changing their level or appearance in the least, were continuous around the margin. But the holes were not always straight; some of them changed direction as if due to a crooked ...
— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke



Words linked to "Posthole digger" :   shovel



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