1ship.ditcher, one who digs a ditch in which a ship is built or set afloat:
(
1347-60
)
Et en les gages de xvij delveres overaunt sur la debresure des delfs en queux les ditz escomers furunt de les forsmestre afflote
E101/25/32, m.4
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