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   Dig (dĭg), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug (dŭg) or Digged (dĭgd); 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. √67.]
   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.
   
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   Be first to dig the ground. Dryden.
   
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   2. To get by digging; as, “to dig potatoes, or gold”.
   
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   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”.
   
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   4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
   
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   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).
   
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   5. To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam. [Colloq.]
   
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   To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out,  To dig 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, (a) to cover by digging; as, “to dig in manure”. (b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.  -- to dig in one's heels To offer stubborn resistance.
   
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   Dig, v. i.
   1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
   
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   Dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job iii. 21.
   
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   I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.
   
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   2. (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
   
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   3. To work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study ploddingly and laboriously. [Colloq.]
   
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   Peter dug at his books all the harder.  Paul L. Ford.
   
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   4.  (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.]
   
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   dig (dĭg), v. t.
   1. To understand; as, “do you dig me?”. [slang]
   
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   2. To notice; to look at; as, “dig that crazy hat!”. [slang]
   
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   3. To appreciate and enjoy; as, “he digs classical music as well as rock”. [slang]
   
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   Dig, n.
   1. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, “a dig in the side or the ribs”. See Dig, v. t., 4. [Colloq.]
   
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   2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]
   
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   3. A tool for digging. [Dial. Eng.]
   
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   4.  An act of digging.
   
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   5. An amount to be dug.
   
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   6. (Mining) same as Gouge.
   
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   7. a critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, “celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs”.
   
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   8. An archeological excavation site.
   
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