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| archaeologist | A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains. Chinese archaeologists uncovered life sized terracotta statues. |
| burrow | Dig into or through something solid. Burrow through the forest. |
| colliery | A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it. |
| coxswain | The senior petty officer in a small ship or submarine in the Royal Navy. |
| dig | An act or spell of digging. Dig out a channel. |
| disinter | Dig up (something that has been buried, especially a corpse. He has disinterred an important collection of writings. |
| dug | An udder or breast or teat. |
| excavate | Dig out material from (the ground. The cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench. |
| excavation | The act of digging. The methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous. |
| exhume | Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground. The bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge. |
| furrow | Cut a furrow into a columns. A look of concern furrowed his brow. |
| gold | Coins made of gold. He proved to be a rabid seeker for gold and power. |
| granite | Something having the quality of granite unyielding firmness. A man with granite determination. |
| gravel | A mixture of gravel with coarse sand used for paths and roads and as an aggregate. Steps lead down from the terrace to a gravelled path. |
| groove | A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process such as erosion or by a tool as e g a groove in a phonograph record. His thoughts were slipping into a familiar groove. |
| harrow | Draw a harrow over land. Todd could take it whereas I m harrowed by it. |
| hole | Hit the ball into a hole. Stephen lost the first three holes to Eric. |
| inhume | Bury. No hand his bones shall gather or inhume. |
| investigate | Investigate scientifically. Everyone with a possible interest in your brother s death must be thoroughly investigated. |
| mine | Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted. The Vietnamese mined Cambodia. |
| pit | Sink in or contract so as to form a pit or hollow. A bear pit. |
| plow | Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil. Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week. |
| quarry | Extract stone or other materials from a quarry. A limestone quarry. |
| scoop | A quantity taken up by a scoop. What s the scoop old timer. |
| seed | Give a competitor the status of seed in a tournament. After seeding forage into the duff they now have grassland mixed with mature forest. |
| shovel | Dig with or as if with a shovel. Shovel sand. |
| tiller | Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers. |
| turnover | The rate at which employees leave a workforce and are replaced. The team were sitting on their lead and taking care to avoid turnovers. |
| underground | An underground railway especially the one in London. Underground caverns. |
| unearth | Find (something) in the ground by digging. The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President. |
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