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digged |
1 definition found 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.
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