digging stick
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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
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Examples from the Web for digging stick
Historical Examples of digging stick
She took the basket and digging-stick home with her, put them up safely.
Creation Myths of Primitive AmericaJeremiah Curtin
Like them, he wore nothing but the malo; with them he plied the digging-stick at planting time.
The FijiansBasil Thomson
The first agricultural implement was probably the digging-stick, which was followed by the hoe.
The New Stone Age in Northern EuropeJohn M. Tyler
The garden is older than the farm, and hoe and digging-stick vastly older than the plough.
The New Stone Age in Northern EuropeJohn M. Tyler
Primitive woman had no plough, only the digging-stick, the agricultural implement of the Australians.
The New Stone Age in Northern EuropeJohn M. Tyler