digging

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
2. (countable, uncountable)A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
3. (colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable)Accommodation; lodgings; digs.
4. (archaic, colloquial, countable, in-plural, often, uncountable)Region; locality.

   “This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.””

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dig