ditcher

noun

1. One who digs ditches.
2. One who ditches, or abandons.

   “a ditcher of perfectly good ideas”

3. 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.”

4. (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?””