digging

Dear or costly; as, 'a mighty digging price.' A Southern word.--Sherwood's Georgia.

Digging
·noun Region; locality. II. Digging ·noun The act or the place of excavating. III. Digging ·p.pr. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
gold-digging
verbal n. mining or digging forgold. 1880. G. Sutherland, `Tales of Gold. fields,' p. 36: «There ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris