To obtain by digging; to dig up or out of (the ground); to exhume. archaic or dialect.

transitive to dig up.

transitive. To dig up.

With up, out: To extract by digging. Also transferred and figurative.

transitive. To take or get out of the ground, etc., by digging or excavating; to exhume, disinter, unearth. Also figurative to obtain, find…

transitive. To take out, thrust out, extract or remove by excavation. (Cf. 6) figurative to obtain, get hold of, or get out by search or effort.

transitive. To dig out of the earth, to exhume; to disclose by the removal of earth.

transitive. To scrape or prise (something) up or out with a fork, hoe, or other implement.

To dig out (of the ground), dig up.

To dig up, to dig. Obsolete.

transitive. To dig out or remove (something buried) from beneath the ground.

transitive. Usually with up. To uproot, to dig or grub up. Also: to dig out, unearth (an otter).

To get out by digging.

To take up out of the ground (Scottish in general sense); Horticulture to dig up (potatoes, bulbs, etc.). Also occasionally intransitive, in to lif…

To begin to drill (a hole for an oil well) by imparting an up-and-down motion to the drilling bit. Now usually more widely, to drill (a well)…

transitive. To grub or dig up (a piece of land, etc.) like a rooting pig. Obsolete. rare.