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Delve
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3).