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Cut :: Cut (n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad..

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

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..

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..

Effodient :: Effodient (a.) Digging up.

Scoop :: Scoop (n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation..

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

Dike :: Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

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..

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

Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

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..

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