Digging

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.””

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