DELVE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.

2.
v.

To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.

3.
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).

4.
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.

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