Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act or the place of excavating.
2) n. - Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
3) n. - Region; locality.
4) v. t. - To thrust; to poke.
5) v. i. - To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
6) v. i. - To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
7) v. i. - To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
8) n. - A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig , v. t., 4.
9) v. t. - A plodding and laborious student.