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(1):

(v. i.) To study ploddingly and laboriously.

(2):

(n.) = Gouge.

(3):

(n.) An amount to be dug.

(4):

(v. t.) 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.

(5):

(v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

(6):

(v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

(7):

(v. t.) To thrust; to poke.

(8):

(v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

(9):

(n.) An act of digging.

(10):

(v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(11):

(n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.

(12):

(v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.

(13):

(v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

(14):

(v. i.) 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.

(15):

(v. i.) To work hard or drudge;

(16):

(n.) A tool for digging.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dig'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/dig.html. 1828.
 
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