LekhoriLekhoriTo move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
to dig potatoes
To understand.
You dig?
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
From Middle English diggen (“to dig”, 13th c.), an alteration of dīken, from Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, mound up earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *dīkōn, which see for cognates. This verb i...
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Digoxin.
dig toxicity
A duck.
Powltrey, &c, &c. Item ten turkeys … Item three Digs [an old Cheshire word for duck] and a Drake … Item ffower Capons … [The word's gloss has been inserted by Earwaker]
Initialism of dwarf irregular galaxy.