Delve(v. i.) To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to   labor as a drudge.
    
    
    
        Delve(v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.
    
    
    
        Delve(v. t.) To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
    
    
    
        Delve(v. t.) To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
    
    
    
        Delved(imp. & p. p.) of Delve
    
    
    
        Delving(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delve
    
    
    
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