Digging

·noun Region; locality.

II. Digging ·noun The act or the place of excavating.

III. Digging ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Dig.

IV. Digging ·noun Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.

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

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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