DUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dug mean? 

• DUG (noun)
  The noun DUG has 1 sense:

1. an udder or breast or teat

  Familiarity information: DUG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An udder or breast or teat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dug" is a kind of...):

mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)

Holonyms ("dug" is a part of...):

female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)

 Context examples 

They threw themselves against the breast-bands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, and put forth all their strength.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

One turned sideways as he dug his nails into the edge of it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, in one of the great boxes, of which there were fifty in all, on a pile of newly dug earth, lay the Count!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He searched little ponds for frogs and dug up the earth with his nails for worms, though he knew in spite that neither frogs nor worms existed so far north.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock over her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“There's a strong scour with the ebb,” he said, “and this here passage has been dug out, in a manner of speaking, with a spade.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In addition to determining the galaxy's size from the Hubble images, the team dug into archival far-infrared images from Spitzer and Herschel.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what is called ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsolete old monsters of acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of the world know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to have been dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The only point which I could not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press in excavating fuller’s-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out like gravel from a pit.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With much difficulty and some danger she was dug out, for Jo was so overcome with laughter while she excavated that her knife went too far, cut the poor foot, and left a lasting memorial of one artistic attempt, at least.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)