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digging

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

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.