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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 swim under water.

To jump into water head-first.

* Whately

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them.

To descend sharply or steeply.

(especially with in ) To undertake with enthusiasm.

She dove right in and started making improvements.

(sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.

To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.

(Hooker)

To explore by diving; to plunge into.

* Denham

The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame.

* Emerson

He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps.

(figurative) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.

(South)