Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIG, v.i.

1. To work with a spade or other piercing instrument; to do servile work. I can not dig; I am ashamed to beg. – Luke xvi.
2. To work in search of; to search. They dig for it, more than for hid treasures. – Job iii. To dig in, is to pierce with a spade or other pointed instrument. Son of man, dig now in the wall. – Ezek. viii. To dig through, to open a passage through; to make an opening from one side to the other.