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digging

noun

  1. process of removing material from a solid surface
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪɡɪŋ(ɡ)/

noun

  1. The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
  2. A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
  3. Accommodation; lodgings; digs.
  4. Region; locality.

    This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dig