To make (a hole, pit, ditch, etc.) by digging; to excavate. archaic.

transitive. To dig, form by digging; to dig out, excavate. Also with out, up. †to grave away: to get rid of by digging. Now rare exc. dialect in to gr…

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

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.

transitive. To hollow out by digging; to excavate; to dig out or up. With various spec. local senses: see quots.

To dig or clear out (a ditch or the like), throwing the soil up on the edges. Obsolete.

To excavate, break up or open by digging.

transitive. To root up or extract from underground, to dig up; to burrow or grub in (the ground). Also, with object complement: to transform by…

= effode, v.

transitive. To dig out, to excavate.

To excavate, to form by excavation. Cf. dugout, adj. n. (canoe).

transitive. To construct by burrowing, to excavate.

To form or make (a hole, channel, etc.) by hollowing out.

transitive and intransitive. To dig.