diggeth

Verb

dig (third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug or (archaic) digged)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
   • They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
2. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
   • to dig potatoes
3. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
4. (US, dated, slang) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
   • Peter dug at his books all the harder.1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling
5. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
   • to dig up evidence
6. To thrust; to poke.
   • He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.

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