- To dig out
- Dig Dig, v. i.
1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do
servile work; to delve.
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Dig for it more than for hid treasures. --Job iii. 21. [1913 Webster]
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. --Luke xvi. 3. [1913 Webster]
2. (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. [1913 Webster]
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.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
