pos>v. t.
Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
I can not delve him to the root. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine. ] A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. [ 1913 Webster ]
Which to that shady delve him brought at last. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
The very tigers from their delves
Look out. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. [ 1913 Webster ]
Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3). [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who digs, as with a spade. [ 1913 Webster ]