delve

1. v. t. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Source: opted

2. v. t. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. Source: opted

3. v. i. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as a drudge. Source: opted

4. v. t. A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Source: opted

5. v. turn up, loosen, or remove earth Source: wordnet

6. 1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden. 2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak. 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). 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. Source: webster

7. To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to labor as adrudge.Delve may I not: I shame to beg. Wyclif (Luke xvi. 3). Source: adambom

8. v:100 v turn up, loosen, or remove earth Source: ecdict

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