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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to
open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp
instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. |
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To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold. |
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To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing
earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well. |
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To thrust; to poke. |
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To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile
work; to delve. |
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To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making
excavations in search of ore. |
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To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. |
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A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs.
See Dig, v. t., 4. |
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A plodding and laborious student. |
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