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Definition of Diggable
1. a. Capable of being dug.
Definition of Diggable
1. Adjective. Capable of being dug. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diggable
1. able to be dug [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diggable
Literary usage of Diggable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Lane. DIGESTIBLE. Easy to be digested. (Lat.) DIGESTIVES. Things to help digestion.
Chaucer. diggable. Capable of being digged. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"Lane. DIGESTIBLE. Easy to be digested. (Lai.) DIGESTIVES. Things to help digestion.
Chaucer. diggable. Capable of being digged. ..."
3. Cretan Sketches by Roandeu Albert Henry Bickford-Smith (1898)
"There is a good diggable area left, for impecuniousness and Turco- phobia (justifiable)
have prevented very thorough research so far. ..."
4. In After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Bigelow, Henry Mills Alden, Guglielmo Ferrero, William Hanna Thomson, Julia Ward Howe (1910)
"... sublimest idea we can form and the noblest hope and affection we can cherish
are but flowers sprouting in that eminently and infinitely diggable soil. ..."
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