Delve

Definition of Delve

v. t.	1.	To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. [imp. & p. p. Delved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving.] 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.
v. i.	1.	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).
n.	1.	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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