To remove or extract s.t. (by digging it out with an instrument, as coconut out of the shell, a thorn out of skin, s.t. small dropped into a crack); to pry s.t. up or off (as a lid of a can).
For processing copra lugit or ugit is the preferred root.
They dig crabs out from among the stones.
Dig out the meat of that seashell.
I am digging out my key that fell between the wall (and the post).