Dug

Word DUG
Character 3
Hyphenation dug
Pronunciations /dʌɡ/

Definitions and meanings of "Dug"

What do we mean by dug?

An udder, breast, or teat of a female animal. noun

Preterit and past participle of dig. noun

The pap or nipple of a woman or a female animal; the breast, with reference to suckling. It is now applied to that of a human female only in contempt. noun

Imp. & p. p. of dig.

A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. noun

Mammary gland on domestic mammal containing more than two breasts. noun

Simple past tense and past participle of dig. verb

An udder or breast or teat noun

To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.

To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.

To thrust; to poke.

To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

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The word "dug" in example sentences

_ -- no consecrated one, but one dug ready to receive a corpse; _dug, in savage threatening of slaughter, for the reception of one yet living_ -- the son of the noble owner of that ancient domain -- dug in sight of his father's house, in his own park, by wretches who have warned him to prepare to fill that grave in October! ❋ Various (N/A)

When Christopher Columbus asked the West Indian savages what they called their dug-outs they said _canoas_; so a boat dug out of a solid log had the first right to the word we now use for a canoe built up out of several different parts. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

The missive said of one student, "The hole she has dug is deeper than the mine shaft in Chile." ❋ Daniel De Vise (2010)

On the way back he picked up another trail, he once again dug his nose down in the grass to better get on the scent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They had been made so in a single night, by his mother, who had compressed about them a powdered mineral which was dug from the landslide back of Port Adams. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The one and only reason McCain dug her out of a snowbank. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Proof is said to reside in the ancient papyrus documents which archaeologists have dug from the sands of Egypt over the past century and a quarter. ❋ Charles E. Hill (2010)

It blasts up the drifts like white dirt dug from the earth, a frozen burial ground encircling our thin tent, entrapping us. ❋ Paul De Denus (2010)

Following Litvinenko's recent poisoning, Starobin dug out his notes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Two minutes after that, Malkin dug the puck off the back wall and tossed a blind pass behind him to Talbot for the tying goal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Elphinstone, ibid., p. 334, also mentions dealing with bankers in Peshawar who would accept his bills, but only pay him secretly at night with money dug from the ground for the purpose. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

Eric Perrin dug the puck out in the corner, and Jason Williams hit Oystrick with a perfect pass as the defenseman jumped into the play after coming off the bench. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sidewalks are laid with flat stones that could have been slate dug from the surrounding hills. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The way you describe it, freshly dug from the yard, makes me think twice ❋ Unknown (2007)

New evidence dug from the shores of the Bay of Bengal supports the radical idea that it was a series of monumental volcanic eruptions that wiped out the dinosaurs, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2007)

With New Jersey on a power play, Martin dug the puck out of a scrum along the right board, skated into the circle and beat the Holmqvist to the short side. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And sometimes frozen potatoes, potatoes dug from a garden at the edge of the city. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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