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Exhume

To dig out of the ground to take out of a place of burial to disinter

Effossion

A digging out or up

Fossorious

Adapted for digging said of the legs of certain insects

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Delve

To dig to open the ground as with a spade

Restitutio in integrum

Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the same position, with respect to one another, which they occupied before the contract was made, or...

groundbreaking

of the ground to formally begin a construction project It is sometimes carried out by an official who digs the first spadeful of dirt from the ground to begin the preparatory excavation work

Digger

One who or that which digs

Labourer

husbandry, or in certain specific trades, for the promotion of honest industry. A 'labourer' is a man who digs and does other work of that kind with his hands (per Brett, M.R., Morgan v. London General Omnibus

Chalkcutter

A man who digs chalk

Majestas

Majestas is defined by Ulpian (Dig. 48, tit. 4, s. 1) to be 'crimen illud quod adversus populum Romanum vel adversus securitatem ejus committitur.' He then gives various instances of the crime of majestas, some of...

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