transitive. To dig; to turn up with the spade; esp. to dig (ground) in preparation for a crop. Now chiefly northern and Scottish, where it is the…

To break up and loosen the soil of, by digging: said esp. of a place not previously or recently dug.

spec. To break up and turn over (the soil) with a mattock, spade, or the like, as an operation of tillage. (See sense 1.)

transitive. To dig or cultivate (ground) in preparation for planting. Also: to plant in cultivated soil.

transitive.

transitive to dig up.

Agriculture. transitive. To break up (soil, the ground, etc.), esp. as part of the process of cultivation; to hoe or dig in (seed). Also: to…

transitive and intransitive. To dig or cultivate (land) in preparation for planting.

transitive. To dig or cultivate again in preparation for planting.

transitive. To dig (up) with a spade; also, to turn up with a plough.

transitive. To dig (in), to pare, etc., with a spittle.

To dig with a spud. Also intransitive.