Dig \Dig\, n. 1. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See {Dig}, v. t., 4. [Colloq.]
2. A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]
3. A tool for digging. [Dial. Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. An act of digging. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. An amount to be dug. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6. (Mining) same as {Gouge}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
7. a critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs. [PJC]
8. An archeological excavation site. [PJC]
Dig \Dig\ (d[i^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dug} (d[u^]g) or {Digged} (d[i^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Digging}. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see {Dike}, {Ditch}); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [root]67.] 1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Be first to dig the ground. --Dryden.
2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
5. To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam. [Colloq.] [PJC]
{To dig down}, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
{To dig from}, {To dig out of}, {To dig out}, {To dig up}, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
{To dig in}, (a) to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure. (b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.
{to dig in one's heels} To offer stubborn resistance. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Dig \Dig\, v. i. 1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Dig for it more than for hid treasures. --Job iii. 21.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. --Luke xvi. 3.
2. (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
3. To work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study ploddingly and laboriously. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Peter dug at his books all the harder. --Paul L. Ford. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Mach.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
{To dig out}, to depart; to leave, esp. hastily; decamp. [Slang, U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
dig \dig\ (d[i^]g), v. t. 1. To understand; as, do you dig me?. [slang] [PJC]
2. To notice; to look at; as, dig that crazy hat!. [slang] [PJC]
3. To appreciate and enjoy; as, he digs classical music as well as rock. [slang] [PJC]
The Corporation of London, which administers London City, gave the museum $176,000 to dig on the site next to the medieval Guildhall, where the corporation meets.
The only previous excavation of Birka was conducted 100 years ago by Hjalmar Stolpe, a zoologist who came in search of insect fossils in 1871 and stayed 24 years to dig up many of the 2,500 Viking age graves.
He said it would cost only $700 to connect to the corner tap, and that district commissioners offered to come out on their own time and dig the ditch.
Manila Mayor Gemiliano Lopez, who inspected the site Tuesday, said the dig was about 17 feet deep.
The center also has a $6,000 scholarship fund that allows Indian students to come dig.
Many residents used picks or bare hands to dig through the rubble that remained where their tiny concrete and tin houses had stood.
Soviet officials are conducting an investigation to determine whether security forces who broke up the demonstration in Tbilisi killed people by beating them with shovels they had been issued to dig trenches.
So far the dig has recovered a jawbone, neck and tail vertebrae and chest bones, he said.
Others dig, but in remote sites or at the edges of villages whose high birth rates demand the use of all available land, whether or not history lies beneath it.
To defuse arguments and keep harmony among his comrades, he would dig their foxholes in searing heat after a long day's march through the rice paddies.
The rock wheel, which has teeth that dig into the road surface, can lay pipes at up to 200 metres in an hour. The company's efforts to link new parts of east Germany to the gas grid are being rapidly outstripped by demand.
"They tried to have mass burials at sea, but the next morning many floated back in on the surf," she told the Houston Chronicle this week. "The men had to dig trenches and burn them.
Government officials said the dig would not violate Moslem religious property.
Now, state officials are considering a dig at the mounds, but state archaeologist Nick Fielder said the protesters don't understand what he's up to.
Stores often keep a cup of pennies at the cash register so customers don't have to dig to the bottoms of their purses and pockets for lint-covered coins.
Packer emerged victorious _ and Bell became a perfect scapegoat for all the other deaths." Many of the 219 permanent residents of Lake City hope the dig will raise the town's profile as a vacation spot.
But Rep. Joe Skeen, R-N.M., sponsored an amendment to the 1989 Defense Authorization Act to allow Noss family heirs to dig for the legendary treasure, although they must pay the expenses.
"You've really got to dig behind the numbers and see if you agree with all the assumptions," says Hewitt's Mr. Bassick, noting that dividend, tax and interest rates should be considered.
That equipment includes bulldozers, front-end loaders and road-graders needed to dig reservoirs to hold thousands of gallons of water for the firefighting effort.
Through loudspeakers at the site, Moslem officials _ including Jamal _ urged Palestinians praying at the site to defend the shrines, saying Israel planned to dig a tunnel to the temple.
Paying people to dig up coal that is destined for ever growing stocks would be just as foolish.
We had to dig graves: for men, women, children, pigs and cows. Some days, there would be 20 or 30 human bodies.
Even with some out-of-pocket help from Mr. Leslie, many employees had to dig into savings and retirement accounts to support themselves, Mr. Coskran says.
Elsewhere in Massachusetts, flooding washed out an archaeological dig at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham.
Finally, the most significant cost may be discouraging those whose job it is to dig for information.
Housing America Through Training has pledged to build its own road and sewage treatment plant, dig a well and organize a shuttle bus service.
There were no immediate plans to dig at that property, Burns added.
Jamie spins the wool and knits gloves as uncommercial Christmas presents - truly homespun, she says. She has tried shearing, but 'it is hard not to cut the sheep as you dig through 6in of fleece.
The task on this morning, presuming death squads attacked again in the night, was to dig six graves.
Out of every 10 people who come into my office, seven have to go back and dig up additional stuff that's missing.