digging

The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.

Accommodation; lodgings; digs.

Region; locality.

This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”