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

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..

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

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping..

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

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

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

Effodient :: Effodient (a.) Digging up.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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