Meaning of DELVE
| Pronunciation: | | delv
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| | Definition: | | [v] turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
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| | Synonyms: | | cut into, dig, turn over |
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| | See Also: | | burrow, dig in, dig out, dig up, excavate, furrow, groove, pitch in, remove, root, rootle, rout, rut, shovel, spade, take, take away, trowel, tunnel, turn up, withdraw | |
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\Delve\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Delving}.] [AS. delfan to dig; akin to OS. bidelban to bury,
D. delven to dig, MHG. telben, and possibly to E. dale. Cf.
{Delf} a mine.]
1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
--Dryden.
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
I can not delve him to the root. --Shak.
\Delve\, v. i.
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).
\Delve\, n. [See {Delve}, v. t., and cf. {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 very tigers from their delves Look out. --Moore.
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| | Related Terms: | | backset, beat the bushes, bore, burrow, cavity, cultivate, culture, cut, dig, dig out, dike, dredge, dress, drill, drive, excavate, explore, fallow, fertilize, forage, force, frisk, furrow, go through, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub, harrow, hoe, hollow, hunt, list, look around, look round, look through, lower, mine, mulch, nose around, plow, pocket, poke, poke around, prune, pry, quarry, rake, research, root, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, search, search through, shovel, sink, smell around, spade, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, trench, trough, tunnel, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, weed, weed out, work |
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