Digging
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Digging may refer to:
  • A form of excavation
  • Cave digging
    Cave digging
    Cave Digging is the practice of enlarging undiscovered cave openings to allow entry. Cave digging usually follows a search of mountains and valleys in karst topography for new caves. Often it takes place underground in places where a large passage has clearly been backfilled with silt, or choked...

  • Clam digging
    Clam digging
    Clam digging is a common means of harvesting clams from below the surface of the tidal mud flats where they live. It is done both recreationally and commercially...

  • Double digging
    Double digging
    Double digging is a gardening technique used to increase soil drainage and aeration. It involves the loosening of two layers of soil, and the addition of organic matter....

    , gardening technique
  • Dump digging
    Dump digging
    Dump digging is the practice of locating and excavating old garbage dumps with the intent of discovering objects which have potential value as collectibles or antiques. These dumps are sometimes centuries old but often date to the late 19th century or early part of the 20th century...

  • Gold digging
    • Gold-digging
  • Gum digging
  • Historical digging
    Historical digging
    Historical digging is the pursuit of antique bottles and related objects while excavating defunct privy vaults, old town dumps, landfills and elsewhere...

  • Privy digging
    Privy digging
    Privy digging is the process of locating and investigating the contents of defunct outhouse vaults. The purpose of privy digging is the salvage of antique bottles and everyday household artifacts from the past. Privy digging is a form of historical digging and is often conducted on private...

  • Well digging
  • "Digging", a poem by Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...


See also

  • Digging bar
  • Digging fork, in gardening
  • Digging stick
    Digging stick
    In archaeology and anthropology a digging stick is the term given to a variety of wooden implements used primarily by subsistence-based cultures to dig out underground food such as roots and tubers or burrowing animals and anthills...

  • Digging tool: pickaxe
    Pickaxe
    A pickaxe or pick is a hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle.Some people make the distinction that a pickaxe has a head with a pointed end and a flat end, and a pick has both ends pointed, or only one end; but most people use the words to mean the same thing.The head is...

    , spade
    Spade
    A spade is a tool designed primarily for the purpose of digging or removing earth. Early spades were made of riven wood. After the art of metalworking was discovered, spades were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the advent of metal spades manual labor was less efficient at moving earth,...

    , shovel
    Shovel
    A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Shovels are extremely common tools that are used extensively in agriculture, construction, and gardening....

    , and other hand tool
    Hand tool
    A hand tool is a device for performing work on a material or a physical system using only hands. The hand tools can be manually used employing force, or electrically powered, using electrical current...

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  • "Digging for Gold
    Digging For Gold
    "Digging for Gold" is a single by the Australian folk punk band Mutiny, released in 2002 by Haul Away Records.-Members:* Chris Patches - vocals* Alice Green - bass* Greg Stainsby - guitar, mandolin* Calum Holland - guitar* Dan Green - piano accordion...

    ", a polk funk song by Mutiny
  • Digging for the Truth
    Digging for the Truth
    Digging for the Truth is a History Channel documentary television series. The first three seasons of the show focused on host Josh Bernstein, who journeyed on various explorations of historical icons and mysteries. Bernstein is the president and CEO of BOSS and has a degree in anthropology and...

    , a History Channel documentary television series
  • "Digging in the Dirt
    Digging in the Dirt
    "Digging in the Dirt" is a 1992 song by British musician Peter Gabriel. It was the first single taken from his sixth studio album, Us. The song was only a minor hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, but it topped both the Billboard Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts...

    ", a song by Peter Gabriel
  • Digging to America
    Digging to America
    Digging to America, published by Knopf in May 2006, is American author Anne Tyler's seventeenth novel.-Plot:Digging to America is a story set in Baltimore, Maryland about two very different families’ experiences with adoption and their relationships with each other...

    , a 2006 novel by Anne Tyler
  • Digging to China
    Digging to China
    Digging to China is a 1998 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Timothy Hutton and the screen debut of Evan Rachel Wood...

    , a 1998 film
  • Digging frog (disambiguation), a type of frog
  • Digging wasp
    Digging wasp
    The wasp Philanthus pulchellus is a species of bee-hunting wasp of Spain and adjacent regions of Europe....

    , a type of wasp
  • Diggings
    Diggings
    The Diggings was a colloquial term used to describe the gold rush locations in Australia during the 1850s. Gold miners - the diggers - would describe their journey "to the diggings" and say they were "at the diggings"...

  • Dig (disambiguation)
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