DIGS

diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad

(noun) temporary living quarters

diggings, digs

(noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

digs

plural of dig

Noun

digs pl (plural only)

(colloquial) Lodgings. From diggings.

(colloquial) Clothes.

Verb

digs

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dig

Anagrams

• GDIs, GIDs, Sigd, gids

Noun

DIGs

plural of DIG

Anagrams

• GDIs, GIDs, Sigd, gids

Noun

dIGs

plural of dIG

Anagrams

• GDIs, GIDs, Sigd, gids

Source: Wiktionary


DIG

Dig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug or Digged (; p. pr. & vb. n. Digging.

– Digged is archaic.] Etym: [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.

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. Dryden.

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. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.

– To dig from, out of, out, or 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, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.(b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare. Also figuratively, esp. in the phrase to dig in one's heels.

Dig, v. i.

1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. Dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job iii. 21. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.

2. (Mining)

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

3. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. [Cant, U.S.]

Dig, n.

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

4. [Colloq.]

2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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