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Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick..

Grub :: Grub (v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge..

Pitcher :: Pitcher (n.) A sort of crowbar for digging.

Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die..

Spud :: Spud (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes..

Scoop :: Scoop (n.) A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine..

Refossion :: Refossion (n.) The act of digging up again.

Grub :: Grub (v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging..

Digging :: Digging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Di.

Sap :: Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc..

Diggers :: Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

Digging :: Digging (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained..

Spader :: Spader (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine..

Mattock :: Mattock (n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax..

Fossorious :: Fossorious (a.) Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

Mine :: Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine..

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse..

Turbary :: Turbary (n.) A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug..

Excavation :: Excavation (n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass..

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals etc..

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