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Digging up some dirt
Answer for the clue "Digging up some dirt ", 7 letters:
plowing
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Word definitions for plowing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plowed (ploud) or Ploughed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Plowing or Ploughing .] To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field. To furrow; to ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. tilling the land with a plow; "he hired someone to do the plowing for him" [syn: ploughing ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of ploughing English) vb. 1 (context snowboarding English): riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular. 2 ploughing
Usage examples of plowing.
It's in my blood--burning broom-sedge and plowing in the ground this time of year.
The time for spring plowing had already arrived, and it made him restless.
Here I is working all the year myself, Dude plowing, and Ada and Ellie May helping to chop the cotton in summer and pick it in the fall, and what do I get out of it?
None of them understood how he felt about the land when the plowing season came each spring.
Farmers everywhere were burning over the woods and the broom-sedge fields, and plowing the earth in the cotton lands and in the new grounds.
He believed the soil held just the right amount of moisture needed for plowing, but he wanted to be sure of it, because he was confident that he could borrow a mule somewhere and begin plowing and planting early the following week.
He could have the land ready for plowing in case something happened that would let him plant a crop of cotton.
He knew the time for burning and plowing had ended the day before, but there still lingered in the warm March air something of the new season.
The smell of freshly turned earth and the odor of pine and sedge-smoke hovered over the land even after burning and plowing was done.
And she noted that, given the temperament of the famous Gray Stud of Vanyel's time (an alleged Shin'a'in warsteed) it was quite reasonable to assume that plowing time (with frisky, hormonal horses) would be rather exciting.
I'll be glad enough to keep you a bit longer—but I warn you, spring plowing around here is not for the weak of heart.
But then, instead of hitching him immediately to a plow, Beaker walked behind him, guiding him with the reins as if he were plowing, but without the plow in place.
Reading Heis' under tone, op Owen knew that the men hadn't believed his caution about Oriey plowing through solids.
The Thek, Tor, would have radiated more warmth than forty humans while it was plowing back and forth across the old compound in search of the buried core.
Reading Heis's undertone, op Owen knew that the men hadn't believed his caution about Orley plowing through solids.