digging

plural diggings

1. countableuncountableThe action performed by a person or thing that digs.
2. countableuncountableA place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
3. colloquialcountabledateduncountableAccommodation; lodgings; digs.
4. archaiccolloquialcountablein pluraloftenuncountableRegion; locality.

   This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”

   1843, “The Big Bear of Arkansas by T. B. Thorpe, Esq. of Louisiana”, in William T. Porter, editor, The Big Bear of Arkansas and Other Sketches Illustrative of Characters and Incidents in the South and South-west, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson And Brothers, page 18

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dig