To break up, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example), as with a shovel, spade, or snout, or with claws, paws or hands, To obtain or find by an action similar to digging, transitive verb_ to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall, To get by digging, To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate, noun_ Lodgings, A poke or thrust, A sarcastic, taunting remark; a gibe