7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dig \Dig\, n.
1. A tool for digging. [Dial. Eng.]
2. An act of digging.
3. An amount to be dug.
4. (Mining) = {Gouge}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dig \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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dig \Dig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dug}or {Digged}; 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. ???.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dig \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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dig \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.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dig
n 1: the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp
next to the dig" [syn: {excavation}, {archeological site}]
2: 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}]
3: a small gouge (as in the cover of a book); "the book was in
good condition except for a dig in the back cover"
4: the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going
on near Princeton" [syn: {excavation}, {digging}]
5: the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or
elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs" [syn: {jab}]
v 1: turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over
the soil for aeration" [syn: {delve}, {cut into}, {turn
over}]
2: create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel" [syn: {dig
out}]
3: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour},
{toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {moil}]
4: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company
wants to excavate the hillsite" [syn: {excavate}, {hollow}]
5: poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her
ribs" [syn: {jab}, {prod}, {stab}, {poke}]
6: get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning
of this letter?" [syn: {get the picture}, {comprehend}, {savvy},
{grasp}, {compass}, {apprehend}]
[also: {dug}, {digging}]
From eng-fra [engfra]:
dig
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