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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..

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..

Collier :: Collier (n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal..

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

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

Effodient :: Effodient (a.) Digging up.

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

Spud :: Spud (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes..

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass..

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..

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.) 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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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