If you dig something out, you find it after it has been stored, hidden, or forgotten for a long time. Recently, I dug out Barstow's novel and read it again We'll try and dig the number out for you if you want it
If you dig someone or something out of a place, you get them out by digging or by forcing them from the things surrounding them. digging minerals out of the Earth She dug out a photograph from under a pile of papers