Dig \Dig\, v. i.
1. To work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study
ploddingly and laboriously. [Colloq.]
Peter dug at his books all the harder. --Paul L.
Ford.
2. (Mach.) 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.
To dig out, to depart; to leave, esp. hastily; decamp.
[Slang, U. S.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Dig \Dig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dugor 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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Dig \Dig\, n.
1. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the
ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4. [Colloq.]
2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Dig \Dig\, v. i.
1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do
servile work; to delve.
Dig for it more than for hid treasures. --Job iii.
21.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. --Luke xvi. 3.
2. (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from
making excavations in search of ore.
3. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and
laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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