absol. or intransitive. To labour with a spade in husbandry, excavating, etc.: to dig. archaic or poetic, and dialect. (In most dialect…

‘To work in making holes or turning the ground’ (Johnson); to make an excavation; to work with a spade or other tool similarly employed. spec. To…

intransitive. To dig with a spade; to delve.

To raise or move with or as with a fork; to dig, take, or throw in, out, up, etc., with a fork.

to use a yelve.

intransitive. To dig.

intransitive. To work with a spade; to dig.

To dig with a spud. Also intransitive.