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- Digging - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Dig
- Digging - n. - The act or the place of excavating.
- Digging - n. - Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
- Digging - n. - Region; locality.
- Collier - n. - One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
- Spud - n. - A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
- Turbary - n. - A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.
- Scoop - n. - A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
- Mine - v. i. - Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
- Excavation - n. - The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
- Effossion - n. - A digging out or up.
- Hoe - n. - A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
- Sap - n. - A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- Refossion - n. - The act of digging up again.
- Sap - v. t. - To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- Spade - n. - An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
- Scraper - n. - An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc.
- Picking - n. - The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
- Diggers - n. pl. - A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
- Mattock - n. - An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
- Scoop - n. - To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
- Suffossion - n. - A digging under; an undermining.
- Becket - n. - A spade for digging turf.
- Tramp - n. - A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.
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