单词 | redig |
释义 | redigv. transitive. To dig again. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > again redig1609 1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. G2 What thinke ye sir if we Redig the ground? 1809 W. Wade tr. A. Michaux Quercus xiv. 35 Care must be taken to re-dig and weed the ground. 1884 Times 2 May 11/6 The police have been busily occupied digging and redigging the garden in search of explosives. 1922 G. Bell Let. 16 Feb. (1927) II. xxii. 633 I must tell you the Yusufiyah is one of the oldest canals in the world... Julian sailed down it to Ctesiphon and the Abbasids re-dug it. 1963 Times 4 June 12/5 A year later the tree can be lifted out after the trench is redug. 2005 T. Tenney God Chasers (new ed.) vii. 105 Genesis chapter 26 tells us that Isaac had his men redig the wells that his father, Abraham, had originally dug many years before. Derivatives reˈdigging n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating > again redigging1907 1907 Church Q. Rev. July 470 This division seems to entail some redigging of ground already trenched. 1974 Times 21 Sept. 16/2 The cobbled berm was cut back by the redigging of the moat. 2003 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 4 Aug. 11 That art at which the Brisbane City Council excels, the digging and filling and redigging of holes at locations and times calculated to cause maximum distress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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