Definition of digging

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

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Mine :: Mine (v. t.) To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging..
Digging :: Digging (n.) Region; locality.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Digging :: Digging (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained..
Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..
Dig :: Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold..
Effodient :: Effodient (a.) Digging up.
Fossorial :: Fossorial (a.) Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal..
Fossorious :: Fossorious (a.) Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
Tramp :: Tramp (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade..
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..
Spader :: Spader (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine..
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..
Hoe :: Hoe (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle..
Fodient :: Fodient (a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging..
Mine :: Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine..
Effossion :: Effossion (n.) A digging out or up.
Turbary :: Turbary (n.) A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug..
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..
Excavation :: Excavation (n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping..
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