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verb

Dig v. t. (past & past part. dug, digged is archaic; pres. part. digging)

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."

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."

5.

To like; enjoy; admire. "The whole class digs Pearl Jam." (Colloq.)

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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Etymology of 'Dig in'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dig in" Quotes from Famous Books

... sidled up to the man. "Whata I tell you? Where I catcha him? In ze sea. Where you catcha ze tobacco? In ze sea. What you say? Heh?" He gave the sailor a dig in the ribs. ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... virtue, and the pains he had been at for so many years. How, replied the gardener, do you imagine I will take these riches as mine which you found out? The property of them is yours; I have no right to them. For fourscore years, (so long my father has been dead) I have done nothing but dig in this garden, and could not discover this treasure, which is a sign that it was destined to you by fate, or Heaven had revealed it to me. It agrees with your quality as a prince, and suits your age, too, better than mine: I am old, and have one foot in the ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1 • Anonymous

... dwelling, he formed an idea of the mind of the person, who, being one of the greatest of the Romans, and having subdued the most warlike nations, nay, had driven Pyrrhus out of Italy, now, after three triumphs, was contented to dig in so small a piece of ground, and live in such a cottage. Here it was that the ambassadors of the Samnites, finding him boiling turnips in the chimney corner, offered him a present of gold; but he sent them away with this ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... children. She was terrified and fell at his feet and begged for forgiveness. Then he pitied her and said, "Tell your husband to put on blue clothes, mount a blue horse, and ride into the jungle. He should ride on until he meets a horse. He should then dismount and dig in the ground. He will in the end come to a temple to Parwati. He must pray to her and she will bestow a child on him." When her husband came back she told him what had happened. So he at once put ...

— Deccan Nursery Tales - or, Fairy Tales from the South • Charles Augustus Kincaid

... well enough where he was, and that he had been unfortunate enough to leap into one of the many pitfalls some tribes dig in the woods ...

— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn

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