Definition of Dig

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Definition of Dig

Dig

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.

To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

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

To thrust; to poke.

To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.

To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.

A plodding and laborious student.

To work hard or drudge;

To study ploddingly and laboriously.

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.

A tool for digging.

An act of digging.

An amount to be dug.

= Gouge.

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Dig Quotations

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
Jimi Hendrix

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles Spurgeon

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
Elvis Presley

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
Layne Staley

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de Montaigne

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.
Kevin Bacon

Dig Translations

dig in Danish is grave
dig in Dutch is opgraven, rooien
dig in Finnish is kaivaa
dig in French is creusez, creusons, creusent, creuser
dig in German is graben
dig in Norwegian is grave
dig in Spanish is cavar

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