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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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]: | |
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Dug \Dug\, n. [Akin to Sw. d[84]gga to suckle (a child), Dan. d[91]gge, and prob. to Goth. daddjan. [?][?][?].] A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. With mother's dug between its lips. --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Dug \Dug\, imp. & p. p. of {Dig}. | |
