Increasing his efforts, he soon overtakes the runaway lovers, challenges his rival by giving him a dig with his claw, and tells him to "come out and show himself a crab."

He leaned over, and administered with his bare hand a vicious dig to a magnificent hamadryad, that lay coiled upon itself in its open basket.

"You did come here to inquire about Warren, didn't you?" Carroll could not forbear a dig: "I trust that you are not putting it upon me to deny your statement to that effect.

Forgive me,and mufflers I'll carefully pull O'er my knuckles hereafter, to make them, well-bred; To mollify digs in the kidneys with wool, And temper with leather a punch of the head.

Borkar had even even taken humorous digs at me through his writings.