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Digging   /dˈɪgɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Dig  v. t.  (past & past part. dug, digged is archaic; pres. part. digging)  
1.
To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. "Be first to dig the ground."
2.
To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3.
To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
4.
To thrust; to poke. (Colloq.) "You should have seen children... dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls."
5.
To like; enjoy; admire. "The whole class digs Pearl Jam." (Colloq.)
To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out, To dig up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
To dig in,
(a)
to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
(b)
To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; used of warfare or negotiating situations.
to dig in one's heels To offer stubborn resistance.


dig  v. t.  (past & past part. dug, digged is archaic; pres. part. digging)  
1.
To understand; as, do you dig me?. (slang)
2.
To notice; to look at; as, dig that crazy hat!. (slang)
3.
To appreciate and enjoy; as, he digs classical music as well as rock. (slang)


Dig  v. i.  (past & past part. dug, digged is archaic; pres. part. digging)  
1.
To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. "Dig for it more than for hid treasures." "I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed."
2.
(Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
3.
To work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study ploddingly and laboriously. (Colloq.) "Peter dug at his books all the harder."
4.
(Mach.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
To dig out, to depart; to leave, esp. hastily; decamp. (Slang, U. S.)


noun
Digging  n.  
1.
The act or the place of digging or excavating.
Synonyms: excavation, dig.
2.
pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. (Recent)
3.
pl. Region; locality. (Low)
4.
A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).
Synonyms: ransacking, rummage.





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"Digging" Quotes from Famous Books



... Whilst the Russians were digging their cooking trenches somewhat aside from the main camp, and making all necessary arrangements for bivouacking, Heideck had an opportunity of admiring the magnificence with which these Indian Princes ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann
... he announced gloomily. "My own mamma always cooks potatoes. Josephine's the limit! I been working to-day. I almost dug out a badger, over by the bluff. I got where I could hear him scratching to get away, and then it was all rocks, so I couldn't dig any more. Gee, it was hard digging! And I'm just about starved, if you want to know. And there ain't ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... in the Barwan. The course downwards of the new river, which we even now believed to be called the Maran, from what we had gathered from the natives, was thus almost proved to be towards the southern rivers. I instructed Mr. Kennedy to employ the party in digging, and fencing in, and daily watering, a garden; also, to make a stockyard wherein to lodge the cattle at night, as this would leave more men disposable for the immediate protection, if necessary, of the camp and stores. I also gave him very particular ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell
... demi-monde alike became scholars. There is a story told by Infessura which illustrates the temper of the times with singular felicity. On April 18, 1485, a report circulated in Rome that some Lombard workmen had discovered a Roman sarcophagus while digging on the Appian Way. It was a marble tomb, engraved with the inscription "Julia, Daughter of Claudius," and inside the coffer lay the body of a most beautiful girl of fifteen years, preserved by precious unguents from corruption and the injury of time. The bloom of youth was still ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... girls, with gipsy bonnets falling on their shoulders, and their long hair flying in the wind; wilder boys, with their satchels bobbing at their backs, their hats swung in the air, and their feet remorselessly digging into the sides of the poor little bewildered beasts ...
— Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children • Grace Greenwood


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