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diggings

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diggings [‚dig·iŋz]
(science and technology)
Excavated materials.
A place of excavating.
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Within a fortnight, however, I met the good man face to face upon the diggings.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
She recognised most of the things which she had known in his old diggings.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
A few immigrant wagons, diverted from the highways of travel by the fame of the new diggings, halted upon the slopes of Devil's Spur and on the arid flats of the Ford, and disgorged their sallow freight of alkali-poisoned, prematurely-aged women and children and maimed and fever-stricken men.
Devil's Ford by Harte, Bret View in context
 
 
 
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