This is the 10089th most frequent Spanish word.
cavando
"Digging."
In this sentence, 'cavando' is used to indicate the action of digging being performed by someone at the present moment or in a continuous aspect.
Él está cavando un pozo en el jardín.
He is digging a well in the garden.
Here, 'cavando' appears in a temporal phrase to describe the act of digging concurrently with discovering an object.
Mientras cavando, encontró una roca extraña.
While digging, he found a strange rock.
In this usage, 'cavando' is part of a continuous activity indicating a prolonged effort in the act of digging with the intent to uncover something.