digging stick
noun
a pointed or spatulate wooden stick, sometimes having a stone weight or crossbar attached and used in primitive societies for loosening the ground to extract buried wild plant foods and for tilling the soil.
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Origin of digging stick
First recorded in 1860–65
Words nearby digging stick
digged, digger, digger pine, digger wasp, diggers, digging stick, diggings, dight, digibox, digicam, digit
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