Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being diggable.
1 more example
[…] peatlands/moors are dynamic environments, subject to rapid change (bogslides) and excavation is extremely difficult/ hazardous due the collapse of the sidewalls and water ingress. The location and diggability of peat have resulted in peatlands being the focus of searches for items of forensic interest[…]
2018 October 24, Pier Matteo Barone, W. J. Mike Groen, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Forensic Archaeology: Topics discussed during the European Meetings on Forensic Archaeology (EMFA), Springer, →ISBN, page 63
Origin
From dig + -ability or diggable + -ity.
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