Delve /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Delved; p. pr. & vb. n. Delving

1. To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

   Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.

2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.

   I can not delve him to the root.

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.

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.