intransitive. To dig. Obsolete exc. dialect †Also figurative.

absol. or intransitive. To labour with a spade in husbandry, excavating, etc.: to dig. archaic or poetic, and dialect. (In most dialect…

Of persons: To turn up the ground. rare.

intransitive. To dig or tunnel under the foundations of a wall, fort, etc., so as to cause its collapse or to gain an entrance; (more generally) to…

intransitive. To dig. In later use, connoting the idea of mean or grovellingly laborious occupation.

transitive. To lower (ground, etc.) by excavation; spec. to excavate (a well or mine shaft) by digging vertically downwards; to bore. Also intrans…

absol. To make excavations or mines.

To make (a hole, hollow place, mine, etc.) by the use of a mattock, spade, or the like; to form by digging; to hollow out; to excavate.

intransitive. To dig with a spade; to delve.

To break up or dig up (ground) with a pick; to extract (something) from the ground by picking. Obsolete.

intransitive. To dig, make excavation, turn things up.

intransitive. To dig.

intransitive. To dig, excavate; to do the work of a pioneer.

intransitive. To dig, make a hole or hollow by digging, esp. in the course of mining, archaeological investigation, etc.

transitive. Coal Mining. To undermine (a mass of coal) so that it falls under its own weight. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To dig.

intransitive. To work with a spade; to dig.