dig, delve, cut into, turn over
(verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth; āDig we mustā; āturn over the soil for aerationā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
delve (third-person singular simple present delves, present participle delving, simple past (obsolete) dalf or delved, past participle (obsolete) dolven or delved)
(intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
(ambitransitive) To dig, to excavate.
• (to dig the ground): dig
• (to search thoroughly): investigate, research
delve (plural delves)
(now rare) A pit or den.
• devel
Source: Wiktionary
Delve v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delved; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving.] Etym: [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 flooDryden.
2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom. I can not delve him to the root. Shak.
Delve, v. i.
Definition: 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. Etym: [See Delve, v. t., and cf. Delf a mine.]
Definition: 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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĆa Municipal de ChinchinĆ” (Colombia) at Parque de BolĆvar, ChinchinĆ”, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
