Crossword clues for digging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Digging \Dig"ging\, n.
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The act or the place of digging or excavating.
Syn: excavation, dig.
pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [Recent]
pl. Region; locality. [Low]
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a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).
Syn: ransacking, rummage.
Dig \Dig\ (d[i^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug (d[u^]g) or Digged (d[i^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Digging. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [root]67.]
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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.
Be first to dig the ground.
--Dryden. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
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. [Colloq.]
You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.
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To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam. To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out, To dig up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. To dig in,
to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
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To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.
to dig in one's heels To offer stubborn resistance.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action performed by a person or thing that digs. 2 A place where ore is dig, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained. 3 (context archaic colloquial English) region; locality vb. (present participle of dig English)
WordNet
n. the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, dig]
n. the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig" [syn: excavation, archeological site]
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, barb, jibe, gibe]
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book); "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover"
the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, digging]
the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs" [syn: jab]
v. turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" [syn: delve, cut into, turn over]
create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel" [syn: dig out]
work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, moil]
remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite" [syn: excavate, hollow]
poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" [syn: jab, prod, stab, poke]
get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" [syn: get the picture, comprehend, savvy, grasp, compass, apprehend]
See dig
Wikipedia
Digging is the act of removing solid material from a surface. Digging may also refer to:
- "Digging", a poem by Seamus Heaney
- " Digging...", a poem by Gopi Kottoor
Digging is the process of using some implement such as claws, hands, or tools, to remove material from a solid surface, usually soil or sand on the surface of the Earth. Digging is actually the combination of two processes, the first being the breaking or cutting of the surface, and the second being the removal and relocation of the material found there. In a simple digging situation, this may be accomplished in a single motion, with the digging implement being used to break the surface and immediately fling the material away from the hole or other structure being dug.
Many kinds of animals engage in digging, either as part of burrowing behavior or to search for food or water under the surface of the ground. Historically, humans have engaged in digging for both of these reasons, and for a variety of additional reasons, such as engaging in agriculture and gardening, searching for minerals, metals, and other raw materials such as during mining and quarrying, preparing for construction, creating fortifications and irrigation, and also excavations in archaeology, searching for fossils and rocks in palaeontology and geology and burial of the dead.
Usage examples of "digging".
The room had grown cold and Alec was crowding him off the bed against the wall, digging an elbow into the small of his back in the process.
Then, getting down on all fours, he began to crawl up, digging each pair of clamps into the flesh in turn to give him a grip.
The fabric of his trousers was silky and thin, and Ana could clearly see the outline of a pair of unappetiz-ingly small briefs digging into his fleshy buttocks.
They swarmed over the alluvial diggings directly gold was found, monopolising the auriferous tracts.
You think about delay, about digging into that mountain at the last minute and finding that Balas is wrong.
I traversed toward it, digging and hardening a bollard in a peak of snow to make a belay as a precaution.
The Boche was not very inimical here, and seemed anxious to lull us into a feeling of peace and security so that, I suppose, he could get safely on with his digging, for he had still a good deal to do.
The rain still fell, and the ground was boggy, but by digging close to the tough roots of the ferns she was able to construct a satisfactory burrow.
Yet even such may find their utility, and indirectly serve masters, perhaps sweating in the public kitchens of the high cylinders, or laboring, neck-locked, at the looms in the cloth mills, or digging, chained with others, in the sul fields.
They used a little shovel, though a regular clammer uses a short-handled hoe, digging the wet earth away much as a farmer digs away the earth from a hill of potatoes.
He clung to the wall of the staircase, his nails digging between the bricks to keep from falling.
During the digging, videotaping had been started-initially a sound bite by Cokie Vale describing her search of classified advertising and how it led to the Hackensack house.
After dark the Chinamen made the largest bonfire I ever saw, or at all events the most brilliant, with trunks of trees and pieces of gum dammar, several pounds in weight, which they obtained by digging, and this was kept up till daylight, throwing its splendid glare over the whole hill-top, lighting up the forest, and bringing the cabin out in all its picturesqueness.
The sword hilts digging into her side, she brought the darter up and around, more by instinct than will, then sprayed the hall with darts.
Triumph after triumph, the highest awards and degrees, elevation to important office, advisor to emperors and savior of peasants, and eventual deification to become Celestial Patron of scrofulous, illiterate, lice-ridden lads digging ditches behind schoolhouses.