The first category includes the vedi ("altar") of Vedic rites, trenches, pits, and ditches dug in the earth.
The New Yorker, October 20 , 1928P. 17 Success won't allow him to wear overalls and dig in the earth.
You can do anything you want with it: build a house, chop lumber, cut down a tree, dig out a canoe, dig in the earth.
The Zulus, Mr. McManus points out, have another technique: if a child shows the wrong preference, a hole is dug in the earth, boiling water is poured in, and the child's left hand is submerged.
Both might be used either in difficult terrain or from behind some artificial obstacle such as pits (as at Bannockburn in 1314), stakes (as at Crécy in 1346, Poitiers in 1356, and Agincourt in 1415), or a trench dug in the earth.
The xylophone possibly originated in Southeast Asia or Oceania and today exists in forms as simple as two or three logs laid across a player's legs or as wooden slabs set across two supports such as logs; a pit dug in the earth may act as a resonating chamber.
If you do gardening, do not let your dog see you till or dig in the earth, as this would simply be positive reinforcement.
A videotape of the excavation shows Mr. Smain digging in the sunbaked earth, and shows parts of a skeleton and mud-caked green track pants and a soiled white robe, a djellaba.
Many families live in holes dug in the ground and covered with logs, earth and plastic sheets.
The small plants have come from a garden in the communities' clearing, where clusters of men dig in the dark earth, tending the plants that will replenish the surrounding forests.
