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delver en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English delvere, from Old English delfere (“a digger”), equivalent to delve + -er.

Meanings

1. One who digs or delves, as with a spade.
   • Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.] 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 386:

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