Dig , n.
1. A tool for digging. [Dial. Eng.]
2. An act of digging.
3. An amount to
be dug.
4. (Mining) = Gouge.
Dig , v. i. 1. To
work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study ploddingly and
laboriously. [Colloq.]
Peter dug at his books all
the harder.
Paul L. Ford. 2. (Mach.)
Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the
like, as when a lathe
tool is set
too low and
so sprung into the work.
To dig out, to depart; to
leave, esp. hastily; decamp. [Slang, U. S.]
Dig , n.
1. A thrust; a punch; a poke;
as, a dig in the
side or the
ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
[Colloq.]
2. A plodding and laborious student.
[Cant, U.S.]
Dig , v. i. 1. To
work with a
spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Dig for it
more than for hid treasures.
Job iii. 21. I can not dig; to beg
I am ashamed.
Luke
xvi. 3. 2. (Mining) To take ore from
its bed, in
distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
3. To work like
a digger; to
study ploddingly and
laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]
Dig (d&ibreve;g),
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug (dŭg) or
Digged (d&ibreve;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. √67.] 1. 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.
2. To get
by digging; as, to dig
potatoes, or gold.
3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by
removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
4. 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.
Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to
fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, out of, out, or 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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