post-hole digger

1. 1.

   a shovel used to sink postholes

   Synonymsposthole digger

   Broadershovel

Questions about post-hole digger

What does post-hole digger mean?

post-hole digger means "a shovel used to sink postholes".

What is another word for post-hole digger?

Close synonyms include posthole digger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is post-hole digger a common word?

post-hole digger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.