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