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(label) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up .

(label) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(label) To investigate, to research, often followed by out'' or ''up .

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To thrust; to poke.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

You should have seen children dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.

Verb

(slang) To understand or show interest in.

You dig ?

(slang) To appreciate, or like.

Baby, I dig you.

Verb

To fit out with a harness or other equipment.

(nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.

(informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.

To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.

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(obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.

* 1616 , (George Chapman), The Hymn to (Hermes), in ''The Whole Works of (Homer) (tr.),

Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys.

(obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

(Tusser)