ditch diggers
Canal excavation crew
Ditch diggers are laborers who dig ditches—long narrow trenches for drainage, irrigation, or laying pipes.
The term often appears in discussions of class and labor: My grandfather was a ditch digger who put three kids through college.
It sometimes carries dismissive connotations when used to characterize unskilled manual work: You don't need a degree to be a ditch digger.
- trenchesElongated ground excavations
- shovelsTools for digging
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
- excavationAct of unearthing
- laying pipeInstalling underground conduits
muddy · backbreaking · pipes · drainage · workers · sweat · sweat equity · honest work · manual · calloused · hardhat · dirt · groundwork · construction · backhoe · trench · grime · toil
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, manual worker
- work crewscleaning crew, maintenance crew, road crew, demolition crew, film crew
- road crewpavers, flaggers, stripers, road rollers
- canal workerslock keeper, bargeman, dredger, navvy, navvies
ditch diggersexecutives
Senior corporate officers
CEOs · white-collar workers · corporate executives · brain surgeons · rocket scientists
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