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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..

Digging :: Digging (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained..

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

Sap :: Sap (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Effodient :: Effodient (a.) Digging up.

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

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

Fodient :: Fodient (a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

Becket :: Becket (n.) A spade for digging turf.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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