Digging
['dɪɡɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dig
(n.) The act or the place of excavating.
(n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
(n.) Region; locality.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of digging, denotes that you will never be in want, but life will be an uphill affair. To dig a hole and find any glittering substance, denotes a favorable turn in fortune; but to dig and open up a vast area of hollow mist, you will be harrassed with real misfortunes and be filled with gloomy forebodings. Water filling the hole that you dig, denotes that in spite of your most strenuous efforts things will not bend to your will.
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Examples
- The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The men outside knew we were in there, and they had a great time digging us out and getting air to us. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus the digging they did counted in making a depression to stand in, and increased the elevation in front of them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was only after all this preliminary sanitation was accomplished that the real work of digging the canal could go forward with any hope of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In it is a marble chair which Helena used to sit in while she superintended her workmen when they were digging and delving for the True Cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden, and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They spun on the left foot, and kept themselves going by passing the right rapidly before it and digging it against the waxed floor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Recent examples of such construction are the Woolworth and Equitable buildings in New York City; in this last instance a thousand horse-power was used in digging the foundations alone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Gold, or placer digging as it was called, was at its height. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Joaqu韓 repeated the slogan in his dried-up boy's voice without checking his digging for a moment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Her footsteps flagged, and she stood gazing listlessly ahead, digging the ferny edge of the path with the tip of her sunshade. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Then he continued digging until he had unearthed the chest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Still, they had not come upon Flintwinch yet; so the sturdy digging and shovelling and carrying away went on without intermission by night and by day. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But do no digging here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the meantime workmen had been busy digging ditches and laying mains through the district that Edison intended to light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- While all diamonds are of practically the same hardness, this is not, however, absolutely true, as stones from wet diggings or rivers are slightly harder than those from dry diggings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was in the early '60's at the diggings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was in diggings out Hampstead way, 17 Potter's Terrace. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There were six of us, and we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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