Definition of digging

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Digging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Di.

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Mine :: Mine (v. t.) To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging..
Spade :: Spade (n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel..
Tramp :: Tramp (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade..
Spader :: Spader (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine..
Excavation :: Excavation (n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping..
Effossion :: Effossion (n.) A digging out or up.
Digging :: Digging (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained..
Ditch :: Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Excavate :: Excavate (v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth..
Digging :: Digging (n.) Region; locality.
Sap :: Sap (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Mattock :: Mattock (n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax..
Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die..
Dig :: Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold..
Fodient :: Fodient (a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging..
Suffragan :: Suffossion (n.) A digging under; an undermining.
Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Becket :: Becket (n.) A spade for digging turf.
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