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6 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 1.6 [wn]: dig n 1: the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig" [syn: {excavation}] 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: the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: {excavation}, {digging}] 4: 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" [syn: {delve}, {cut into}, {turn over}] 2: create by digging, of cavities: "dig a hole" [syn: {dig out}] 3: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework" [syn: {labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {moil}] 4: remove the inner part or the core of [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}]
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