posthole digger

1. 1.

   a shovel used to sink postholes

   Synonymspost-hole digger

   Broadershovel

Questions about posthole digger

What does posthole digger mean?

posthole digger means "a shovel used to sink postholes".

What is another word for posthole digger?

Close synonyms include post-hole 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 posthole digger a common word?

posthole 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.