digging stick

American  

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of digging stick

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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digging stick

Chew-chew struck one of the hogs with her digging stick.

From The Later Cave-Men by Howard V. Brown

So she took her digging stick and dug the teepsinna; but when she pulled it out of the earth, the foundation of the Star Country broke and she fell through with her baby.

From Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson

They hunted with sticks; they threw a stick like your mother's digging stick; and they struck with a stick like your father's hunting club.

From The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre

Burr took her digging stick from beside her door and hacked a point on it with her new ax.

From The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre

He got his digging stick and proceeded to make a hole in the ground.

From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Washington Matthews