ditcher

noun — 4 senses

Ditcher

nounalso spelled Ditcher

Etymology From Ditch + -er.

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:

ditcher

noun

Etymology From ditch (verb) + -er.

1

One who digs ditches.

2

One who ditches, or abandons.

a ditcher of perfectly good ideas

ditcher

noun

Etymology From ditch (noun) + -er.

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:

Related terms: last-ditcher

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