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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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Word History and Origins
Origin of digging stick1
First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences
The first agricultural implement was probably the digging-stick, which was followed by the hoe.
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The garden is older than the farm, and hoe and digging-stick vastly older than the plough.
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Primitive woman had no plough, only the digging-stick, the agricultural implement of the Australians.
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She promised that she would not touch it, and went off happily with her digging stick and a sack.
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Among the Australians, therefore, the woman still goes about with digging-stick in hand, seeking roots and bulbs for food.
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