digging

About 4.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
2. noun A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
3. noun Accommodation; lodgings; digs.
4. noun Region; locality.
5. verb present participle and gerund of dig

Similar words

excavation rummage ransacking delving dredging burrowing tunnelling drilling drill exhumation

Often followed by

in a up into the and for of out