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Fossorious :: Fossorious (a.) Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

Fossorial :: Fossorial (a.) Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal..

Grub :: Grub (v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging..

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..

Mine :: Mine (v. t.) To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging..

Spitted :: Spit (n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.

Refossion :: Refossion (n.) The act of digging up again.

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..

Mine :: Mine (v. i.) A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries..

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..

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc..

Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick..

Digging :: Digging (n.) Region; locality.

Mine :: Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine..

Suffragan :: Suffossion (n.) A digging under; an undermining.

Hollow :: Hollow (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate..

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops..

Turbary :: Turbary (n.) A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug..

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..

Dig :: Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold..

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