diggingn.

Brit.

/ˈdɪɡɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdɪɡɪŋ/

Etymology: < dig v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of the verb to dig v., in various senses; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun]

earth-tilthOE

earth-tillingOE

tilling?c1225

delving1377

laboura1393

land-tillingc1420

culturec1450

tilthing1495

labouring1523

manurea1547

manuring1550

digging1552

cultivation1553

tilth1565

manurance1572

agriculture1583

nithering1599

culturation1606

gainor1607

delvage1610

agricolation1623

gainage1625

cultivage1632

manurementa1639

groundwork1655

fieldwork1656

proscission1656

field labour1661

manuragea1670

subduing1776

management1799

subjugation1800

geopony1808

clodhopping1847

agriculturism1885

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging

delfeOE

pastining?1440

breaking1514

digging1552

repastination1569

potting1592

pastination1623

spade-work1778

delve1869

dig1887

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dygginge and deluinge of a ground to bring it eftsones in temper, repastinatio.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying i. §2 Let us not project long designs, crafty plots, and diggings so deep that the intrigues of a design shall never be unfolded.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 25 In the digging of the foundations.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Yew Tree This first digging is to be done always in March.

1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 27 After the digging the Pit..was finished.

1891 Law Times 92 106/2 He was only paid for his digging.

b. with an adverb.

ΚΠ

1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 598 A digging vnder: an vndermining, suffossio.

1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Feb. 46 A digging and rooting up of all corruptions.

1890 Daily News 4 Sept. 6/4 All digging down work should be paid for at the rate of 1^d. per hour extra.

2. figurative. The action of studying hard. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun]

inquisitionc1384

inquiryc1440

searcha1500

quest1531

research1604

researching1611

digging1827

fact-finding1854

delving1888

scanning1937

oppo1990

1827 Harvard Reg. (1828) Dec. 312 I find my eyes in doleful case, By digging until midnight.

1873 W. Mathews Getting on in World xv. 244 Men of genius have seldom revealed to us how much of their fame was due to hard digging.

3. concrete. The materials dug out.

ΚΠ

1559 in Boys Sandwich (1792) 737 iij laborers may carry his diggins away.

a1626 F. Bacon Case Impeachm. Waste (L.) He shall have the seasonable loppings; so he shall have seasonable diggings of an open mine.

a. A place where digging is carried on, an excavation; in plural (sometimes treated as a singular) applied to mines, and especially to the gold-fields of California and Australia. Also with prefixed word, as gold-diggings, river-diggings, surface-diggings, etc. dry- or wet-diggings (see quot. 1889).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating > material thrown up in digging

digginga1552

upcast1883

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > excavation

pot1431

undermine1524

grave1526

digginga1552

undermining1572

groin1587

underbeiting1670

dene-hole1768

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation

stream-work1586

opencast?a1650

lavatory1712

lavadero1717

coffin1778

whole working1842

open cut1848

dry- or wet-diggings1849

river diggings1850

placer digging1851

placer working1867

drift mine1882

strip mine1934

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 9 On the South side of Welleden..ys a goodly quarre of Stone, wher appere great Diggyns.

1653 Z. Bogan Medit. Mirth Christian Life 122 The earth..yields a smell wholesome to the digger in the diggings.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 206 The Wall..of one Foot thick, from the Bottom of the Digging, to the Level of the Ground above.

1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 40 At Norton, near Wulpit, King Henry VIII. was induced to dig for Gold. He was disappointed, but the Diggings are visible at this Day.

1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana 148 The mode of working the mines is exceedingly simple. The word diggings, by which they are known, very well designates the appearance of these places.

1823 S. H. Long Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 93 Near his house are the diggings so often mentioned in this region as objects of curiosity.

1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 22 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) II. 47 He has lately struck a lead... We are now, you observe, among his diggings.

1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 62 The diggings as they term the places where the lead is found..were about sixteen miles distant.

1849 Illustr. London News 17 Nov. 325/1 Letter from the Gold Diggings.

1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 138 The diggings are on a creek called Araluen Creek.

1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 120 The principal diggings near Haugtown were surface diggings, but, with the exception of river diggings, every kind of mining was seen in full force.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Wet-diggings and Dry-diggings are terms in gold districts, for mines near rivers or on the higher lands as the case may be.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vii. 175 It was a goldfield, and a diggings in faraway Australia.

b. Archæological excavation, or the site of such an excavation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeological expedition or excavation

dig1896

digging1911

1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 31 Mar. (1938) 101 Digging results will appear in The Times.

1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 23 May (1938) 106 She was really too captious at first, coming straight from the German diggings at Kalaát Shirgat.

1938 D. Garnett in T. E. Lawrence Lett. 40 It was in this bungalow that he lodged his Arab friends..when he brought them from the Carchemish diggings to visit England.

5. colloquial in plural. Lodgings, quarters.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > hired lodgings

chambers1581

rooms1623

lodging1640

digging1838

set1840

digs1893

1838 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches II. 119 (Farmer) I reckon it's about time we should go to our diggings.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxi. 260 She won't be taken with a cold chill, when she realises what is being done in these diggings.

1882 Chambers's Jrnl. 87 I returned to my diggings.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 187 We took out the hamper..and started off to look for diggings.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

digging breast n.

ΚΠ

1875 A. Smith New Hist. Aberdeenshire II. 1120 The next experiment was with the ‘digger’..formed by taking the mouldboard off the plough and putting on the digging breasts.

digging-machine n.

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 702/2 Digging machine (Agric.), a spading-machine for loosening and turning the soil.

digging-spade n.

ΚΠ

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 136 A Digging spade.

digging-spur n.

digging-stick n.

C2.

digging-life n. life at the gold-diggings.

ΚΠ

1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 120 Shafts were sunk, windlasses erected, and the whole paraphernalia of digging life called into requisition.

digging-party n. (see party n. 10, 11).

ΚΠ

1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. iii. 19 But for our digging party entire, which consisted of my brother, four shipmates, and myself, no accommodation could be procured.

1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. iii. 32 Four other of our shipmates had also joined themselves into a digging-party.

1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 55 Some Garrison gunners threw three bombs at an enemy digging-party.

digging plough n. = digger plough n. at digger n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > digger plough

digging plough1891

digger plough1935

1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xix. 272 Howards Digging Plough..turns over the furrow slices most perfectly and breaks what is then left at the surface by means of a projecting wing or continuation of the mould-board.

digging-stick n. a primitive digging implement consisting of a pointed stick, sometimes weighted by a stone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > digging tool

pikeeOE

digger1686

mamoty1782

ko1843

changkol1848

yam-stick1863

digging-stick1865

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 358 The digging-sticks are made of a young mangrove tree.

1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xii. 82 Women..carrying their food baskets and digging sticks.

1959 N. B. Tindale & H. A. Lindsay Rangatira ii. 199 The hoe and digging-stick method of cultivating the soil [by the Maoris].

1960 K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land ii. 49 Cultivation of the ground was probably carried out by digging-sticks, pointed sticks weighted by stones, of which the evidence survives in the form of heavy stones pierced by a hole.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	digging
释义	diggingn. Brit. /ˈdɪɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdɪɡɪŋ/ Etymology: < dig v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of the verb to dig v., in various senses; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] earth-tilthOE earth-tillingOE tilling?c1225 delving1377 laboura1393 land-tillingc1420 culturec1450 tilthing1495 labouring1523 manurea1547 manuring1550 digging1552 cultivation1553 tilth1565 manurance1572 agriculture1583 nithering1599 culturation1606 gainor1607 delvage1610 agricolation1623 gainage1625 cultivage1632 manurementa1639 groundwork1655 fieldwork1656 proscission1656 field labour1661 manuragea1670 subduing1776 management1799 subjugation1800 geopony1808 clodhopping1847 agriculturism1885 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging delfeOE pastining?1440 breaking1514 digging1552 repastination1569 potting1592 pastination1623 spade-work1778 delve1869 dig1887 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dygginge and deluinge of a ground to bring it eftsones in temper, repastinatio. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying i. §2 Let us not project long designs, crafty plots, and diggings so deep that the intrigues of a design shall never be unfolded. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 25 In the digging of the foundations. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Yew Tree This first digging is to be done always in March. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 27 After the digging the Pit..was finished. 1891 Law Times 92 106/2 He was only paid for his digging. b. with an adverb. ΚΠ 1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 598 A digging vnder: an vndermining, suffossio. 1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Feb. 46 A digging and rooting up of all corruptions. 1890 Daily News 4 Sept. 6/4 All digging down work should be paid for at the rate of 1^d. per hour extra. 2. figurative. The action of studying hard. U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun] inquisitionc1384 inquiryc1440 searcha1500 quest1531 research1604 researching1611 digging1827 fact-finding1854 delving1888 scanning1937 oppo1990 1827 Harvard Reg. (1828) Dec. 312 I find my eyes in doleful case, By digging until midnight. 1873 W. Mathews Getting on in World xv. 244 Men of genius have seldom revealed to us how much of their fame was due to hard digging. 3. concrete. The materials dug out. ΚΠ 1559 in Boys Sandwich (1792) 737 iij laborers may carry his diggins away. a1626 F. Bacon Case Impeachm. Waste (L.) He shall have the seasonable loppings; so he shall have seasonable diggings of an open mine. 4. a. A place where digging is carried on, an excavation; in plural (sometimes treated as a singular) applied to mines, and especially to the gold-fields of California and Australia. Also with prefixed word, as gold-diggings, river-diggings, surface-diggings, etc. dry- or wet-diggings (see quot. 1889). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > digging or excavating > material thrown up in digging digginga1552 upcast1883 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > excavation pot1431 undermine1524 grave1526 digginga1552 undermining1572 groin1587 underbeiting1670 dene-hole1768 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation stream-work1586 opencast?a1650 lavatory1712 lavadero1717 coffin1778 whole working1842 open cut1848 dry- or wet-diggings1849 river diggings1850 placer digging1851 placer working1867 drift mine1882 strip mine1934 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 9 On the South side of Welleden..ys a goodly quarre of Stone, wher appere great Diggyns. 1653 Z. Bogan Medit. Mirth Christian Life 122 The earth..yields a smell wholesome to the digger in the diggings. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 206 The Wall..of one Foot thick, from the Bottom of the Digging, to the Level of the Ground above. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 40 At Norton, near Wulpit, King Henry VIII. was induced to dig for Gold. He was disappointed, but the Diggings are visible at this Day. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana 148 The mode of working the mines is exceedingly simple. The word diggings, by which they are known, very well designates the appearance of these places. 1823 S. H. Long Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 93 Near his house are the diggings so often mentioned in this region as objects of curiosity. 1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 22 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) II. 47 He has lately struck a lead... We are now, you observe, among his diggings. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 62 The diggings as they term the places where the lead is found..were about sixteen miles distant. 1849 Illustr. London News 17 Nov. 325/1 Letter from the Gold Diggings. 1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 138 The diggings are on a creek called Araluen Creek. 1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 120 The principal diggings near Haugtown were surface diggings, but, with the exception of river diggings, every kind of mining was seen in full force. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Wet-diggings and Dry-diggings are terms in gold districts, for mines near rivers or on the higher lands as the case may be. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vii. 175 It was a goldfield, and a diggings in faraway Australia. b. Archæological excavation, or the site of such an excavation. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeological expedition or excavation dig1896 digging1911 1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 31 Mar. (1938) 101 Digging results will appear in The Times. 1911 T. E. Lawrence Let. 23 May (1938) 106 She was really too captious at first, coming straight from the German diggings at Kalaát Shirgat. 1938 D. Garnett in T. E. Lawrence Lett. 40 It was in this bungalow that he lodged his Arab friends..when he brought them from the Carchemish diggings to visit England. 5. colloquial in plural. Lodgings, quarters. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > hired lodgings chambers1581 rooms1623 lodging1640 digging1838 set1840 digs1893 1838 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches II. 119 (Farmer) I reckon it's about time we should go to our diggings. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxi. 260 She won't be taken with a cold chill, when she realises what is being done in these diggings. 1882 Chambers's Jrnl. 87 I returned to my diggings. 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 187 We took out the hamper..and started off to look for diggings. Compounds C1. General attributive. digging breast n. ΚΠ 1875 A. Smith New Hist. Aberdeenshire II. 1120 The next experiment was with the ‘digger’..formed by taking the mouldboard off the plough and putting on the digging breasts. digging-machine n. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 702/2 Digging machine (Agric.), a spading-machine for loosening and turning the soil. digging-spade n. ΚΠ 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 136 A Digging spade. digging-spur n. digging-stick n. C2. digging-life n. life at the gold-diggings. ΚΠ 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 120 Shafts were sunk, windlasses erected, and the whole paraphernalia of digging life called into requisition. digging-party n. (see party n. 10, 11). ΚΠ 1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. iii. 19 But for our digging party entire, which consisted of my brother, four shipmates, and myself, no accommodation could be procured. 1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. iii. 32 Four other of our shipmates had also joined themselves into a digging-party. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 55 Some Garrison gunners threw three bombs at an enemy digging-party. digging plough n. = digger plough n. at digger n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > digger plough digging plough1891 digger plough1935 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xix. 272 Howards Digging Plough..turns over the furrow slices most perfectly and breaks what is then left at the surface by means of a projecting wing or continuation of the mould-board. digging-stick n. a primitive digging implement consisting of a pointed stick, sometimes weighted by a stone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > digging tool pikeeOE digger1686 mamoty1782 ko1843 changkol1848 yam-stick1863 digging-stick1865 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 358 The digging-sticks are made of a young mangrove tree. 1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xii. 82 Women..carrying their food baskets and digging sticks. 1959 N. B. Tindale & H. A. Lindsay Rangatira ii. 199 The hoe and digging-stick method of cultivating the soil [by the Maoris]. 1960 K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land ii. 49 Cultivation of the ground was probably carried out by digging-sticks, pointed sticks weighted by stones, of which the evidence survives in the form of heavy stones pierced by a hole. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas ˈdigging ˈdigging adj. Π c1394 P. Pl. Crede 504 Þat was þe dygginge devel þat dreccheþ men ofte. extracted from digv. < n.a1552 as lemmas
随便看	hold firm hold firm to hold foot with hold forth hold friends with hold give no tale of hold good hold great price of hold great price upon hold guns hold hand hold hands hold hard hold high state hold house hold in hold in a great suspense hold in abomination hold in awe hold in chase hold in chertee hold in contempt hold in contempt of court hold in demesne hold in esteem, contempt, memory, etc

diggingn.

Compounds

> as lemmas