digged

«digged» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: dug — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

dug

part of speech

verb, past tense of dig

meaning for a pupil

Made a hole in the ground by digging. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "dug."

examples

• And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. (Torah GEN.26.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• Then meseemed that if I digged I should find beneath that tree a great treasure. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water. (Torah GEN.26.19, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

dug

tests

manual 6; corpora 17 (Torah 12, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water.
• And they digged another well, and they strove for that also.
• And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not.
• The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves.
• I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «digged» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.