digging stick

collocation in English

meaningsofdigandstick

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dig
noun[C]
uk
/dɪɡ/us
/dɪɡ/
a remark that is intended to criticize, embarrass, or make a joke ...
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stick
noun
uk
/stɪk/us
/stɪk/
a thin piece of wood or ...
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(Definition ofdigandstickfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To build it, long fresh poles of oak or willow are driven into the ground or placed in holes made with adiggingstick.
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The dibber was adiggingstick, used to plant the seed.
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Shrieking, the sisters struck the snakes with their digging sticks, hitting them with such force that the live coals flew off.
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The daluppak is adiggingstickwith a bamboo clapper.
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Adiggingstickis usually made from a heavy branch, but some digging sticks with metal tips have been procured through trade with outsiders.
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These women were the first to possess the secret of fire and each one carried live coals on the end of herdiggingstick.
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There was adiggingstickin her hand.
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Their bodies were dressed in paper and accompanied by adiggingstickfor planting put in their hands.
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To build it, long fresh poles of oak or willow are driven into the ground or placed in holes made with adiggingstick.
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The dibber was adiggingstick, used to plant the seed.
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Each one carried a live coal on the end of herdiggingstick, allowing them to cook the yams which the dug out of the ground.
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Shrieking, the sisters struck the snakes with their digging sticks, hitting them with such force that the live coals flew off.
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During archaeological construction of the drainage channels artefacts were discovered including wooden digging sticks, a grindstone, and other small items.
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These women carried live coals on the ends of their digging sticks, allowing them to cook yams.
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A variety of digging sticks were made from the timber for food gathering and gardening.
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Each day the women of the horde went into successive parts of one countryside, with wooden digging sticks and plaited dilly bags or wooden coolamons.
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However, as the continuous cultivating of smaller pieces of land became a sustaining practice throughout the world, ards were much more efficient than digging sticks.
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