Word Finder - digging

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To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

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If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.

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To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.

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to dig potatoes

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To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

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To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

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To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.

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to dig out the facts

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To thrust; to poke.

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He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.

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To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

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To understand or show interest in.

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You dig?

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To appreciate, or like.

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Baby, I dig you.

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The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

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A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.

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Region; locality

Yates is digging in garden.

Yesterday, when I was digging in it, I found a box full of gold and jewels.

I can't see you in the rain digging a hole for a toaster.

Working with a mattock and shovel, she began digging a hole.

Obsessed with the thought, he rose and began digging in the hut.

We paused before digging in.

He dressed and explored the bedchamber, digging through her wardrobes and trunks.

They've got all kinds of newfangled ways of digging up the past.

His assessment tore through her mind, digging up memories and laying them bare on the surface.

He spelled her for a while, digging twice as much in half the time.

It is stated to live usually in pairs, and to eat rats, birds, frogs, white ants and various insects, and in the north of India it is accused of digging out dead bodies, and several of the native names mean "grave-digger."

I asked a darling woman at the courthouse yesterday to do some digging for me.

He began digging again.

I'll do some digging in the surrounding areas.

Digging a note pad out of her purse, she labored over a note.

They also started digging a ditch around the building.

Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

Our man must have spent some time digging.

Gold digging had hitherto enjoyed in the Transvaal but a precarious existence.

She studied it for a few seconds before digging through the box for something similar.

The timid viscacha (Lagostomus trichodactylus), living in colonies, often with the burrowing owl, and digging deep under ground like the American prairie dog, was almost the only quadruped to be seen upon these immense open plains.

The limbs are five-toed, with the third and fourth toes of the front pair armed with enormous digging claws; FIG.

This, of course, means that a new station, where clearing, digging, and building are in progress, is often unhealthy for a time, and to this must be attributed the evil reputation which the peninsula formerly enjoyed.

After digging through 18 ft.

Subsequently the digging plough came into vogue; the share being wider, a wider furrow is cut, while the slice is inverted by a short concave mould-board with a sharp turn which at the same time breaks up and pulverizes the soil after the fashion of a spade.

It is interesting and suggestive that in a few families of digging Hymenoptera (such as the Mutillidae), allied to the ants, the females are wingless.

In the relative development and shape of the various segments of the leg there is almost endless variety, dependent on the order to which the insect belongs, and the special function - walking, running, climbing, digging or swimming - for which the limb is adapted.

Attend to trenching and digging in dry weather.

But the survivors returned to the spot, and by digging down and tunnelling were able to remove all the objects of value, even the marble facing slabs of the large buildings.

These means are such as the digging of wells, planting medicinal herbs, and trees for shade, sending out of missionaries, appointment of special officers to supervise charities, and so on.

Then the big work started, with several gangs of laborers digging deep pits at timed intervals.

Cultivation in the northern parts of India is done by digging over the soil - locally termed hoeing - once in the winter quarter and Cultiva- six times in the nine months of the harvesting season.

The spring level rises, so that water can be reached by digging only a few feet, and the land, soured and water-logged, relapses into barrenness.

After a short illness he died on the 28th of November 1695, and was buried in the outer chapel of St John Baptist (Merton College), in Oxford, where he superintended the digging of his own grave but a few days before.

The work of digging (1819-1820) the new canal of Alexandria, called the Mahmudiya (after the reigning sultan of Turkey), was specially important.

Finally the parasitic larva attacks the Osmia, and digging its mandibles into its victim's head kills and eats it, taking from one to two days for the completion of the repast.

Rhangabe made tentative excavations on this site, digging a trench along the north and east sides of the second temple.

It had an invariable habit of digging a hole in the ground, into which it crawled backwards, remaining there all day with only its nose and ferrety eyes visible.

At the present day the only place where the search for diamonds is pursued as a regular industry is the native state of Panna in Bundelkhand The stones are found by digging down through several strata of gravelly soil and washing the earth.

Water is fairly abundant, though in the dry season obtainable only by digging in the sandy beds of the rivers.

It has been said by a trustworthy authority,' "We are convinced also that severe labour on public works is most beneficial in teaching criminals habits of industry and training them to such employments as digging, road-making and brick-making - work of a kind which cannot be carried on in separate confinement."

The draining and tilling of submerged or uncultivated land on a large scale, the promotion of agriculture in every way, in particular by the digging of channels, and the regulation of the system of taxation, were carried out on his initiative.

The ancient harbour (really but a portion of the lagoons, which had been deepened) is now completely silted up. Even in early times a canal had to be kept open by perpetual digging, while about 1700 this was closed, and now a sandy and partly cultivated waste extends between the town and the seashore.

In India the serpent-godlings are very often associated with water, and, even at the digging of a well,worship is paid to the ` ` world serpent," and the Salagrama (spiral ammonite), sacred to Vishnu, is solemnly wedded to the Tulasi or basil plant, representative of the garden which the pool will fertilize.

The first diamond, a stone of 50 carats, was found in August of that year, and digging immediately began.

This deep digging, however, which reached the sand of the original marsh, released much ground water and resulted in the permanent flooding of the site.

This is continued till the potatoes are ready for digging in May.

The Papuan woman, who is, as a rule, more modest than the Polynesian, is the household drudge, and does the greater part of the outdoor work, but the man assists in clearing new gardens and in digging and planting the soil.

In digging they use the pointed stick.

Ever excellent agriculturists, their implements were formerly digging sticks and hoes of turtlebone or flat oyster-shells.