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digging stick
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dig·ging stick (dgng)
n. Anthropology
A rudimentary digging implement consisting of a pointed stick, sometimes with an attached stone or crossbar, used to loosen and till the soil and to extract plant foods.


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The sharp, easily graspable devices could be used in all sorts of environments to cut meat off carcasses, to dig up plants and tubers, and to whittle points on digging sticks, just for starters.
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Historical accounts from Canadian expeditions in 1857 and 1859 describe women and children harvesting prairie turnips with fire-hardened, slightly curved digging sticks, Kaye and Moody noted.
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