Definition of digging

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Digging (n.) The act or the place of excavating.

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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.
Grub :: Grub (v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge..
Fodient :: Fodient (a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging..
Sap :: Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc..
Mine :: Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine..
Collier :: Collier (n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal..
Excavation :: Excavation (n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Suffragan :: Suffossion (n.) A digging under; an undermining.
Spitted :: Spit (n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
Hollow :: Hollow (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate..
Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
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..
Turbary :: Turbary (n.) A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug..
Dig :: Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold..
Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Refossion :: Refossion (n.) The act of digging up again.
Scoop :: Scoop (n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine..
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..
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