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.
v. t. - To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
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.
v. t. - To thrust; to poke.
v. i. - To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
v. i. - To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
v. i. - To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
n. - A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
v. t. - A plodding and laborious student.
v. i. - To work hard or drudge;
v. i. - To study ploddingly and laboriously.
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.
n. - A tool for digging.
n. - An act of digging.
n. - An amount to be dug.
n. - = Gouge.