DIG

add. ·noun gouge.

2. dig ·add. ·noun an act of digging.

3. dig ·add. ·noun a tool for digging.

4. dig ·vt a plodding and laborious student.

5. dig ·add. ·noun an amount to be dug.

6. dig ·add. ·vi to work hard or drudge;.

7. dig ·vt to get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

8. dig ·add. ·vi to study ploddingly and laboriously.

9. dig ·vi to work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

10. dig ·vt to thrust; to poke.

11. dig ·noun a thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. ·see dig, ·vt, 4.

12. dig ·vi to take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

13. dig ·vi to work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

14. dig ·vt to hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

15. dig ·add. ·vi 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.

xvi. dig ·vt 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.