Look up: Delve

1. Delve
   Delve transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Delved ; present participle & verbal noun Delving .] [ Anglo-Saxon delfan to dig; akin to Old Saxon bidelban to bury, Dutc...
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2. Delve
   Delve intransitive verb 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).
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3. Delve
   Delve noun [ See Delve , transitive verb , and confer Delf a mine.] A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. « Which to that shady delve him brought at last.» Spenser. « The ve...
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4. delve
   1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. 'Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floo' (Dryden) ... 2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. 'I can not delve him to the root.' (Shak) ... Origin: AS. Delfan to dig; akin to OS. Bidelban to bury, D. Delven to dig, MHG. Telben, a...
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5. Delve
   • (v. t.) To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. • (v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. • (v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. • (v. t.) To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
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6. Delve
   `Delve` is a municipality belonging to the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde ("collective municipality") Eider in the district Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany. The municipality covers an area of 15.85 km². Of the total population of 734, 364 are male, a...
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