An act of digging or delving; a thrust of the spade. Obsolete (rare in later use).
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating (27) delfeOE An act of digging or delving; a thrust of the spade. Obsolete (rare in later use). gravinga1340 Digging. Obsolete. pioning1590 The work of a pioneer (pioneer, n. 1); digging, excavation; siege-craft. spitting1594 The action of digging, or of ploughing to a spade-depth; a small trench made with a spade. spading1647 The action of digging, working, striking, etc., with a spade; the quantity of earth that may be lifted with a spade; a spade's depth of earth. effossion1657 The action of digging out (of the ground). earthwork1796 The action or process of excavating earth, esp. in civil engineering work; an instance of this. Also: an embankment or other structure made of… exfodiation1823 the action or process of digging out: in quot. figurative. disentombment1859 the act of disentombing. earth moving1866 Excavation of large quantities of soil. delve1869 An act of delving; the plunging (of a spade) into the ground. dig1887 An act of digging; the plunging or thrusting (of a spade, or the like) into the ground. Subcategories:— again (1) — of pits (1) — of trenches (2) — digging under (4) — digging into barrows (1) — material thrown up in digging (2) — something dug out (1) — an excavation (3) |
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