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Definition
to dig out
in various senses, including:
- remove or lay bare — as when removing top soil to lay a foundation
- find or uncover — as at an archaeological site
- remove a part — as a tooth from the gum that surrounds it
- " 'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out like gravel from a pit.'Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (38% in)
There are no more uses of "excavate" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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