Delved

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Delve \Delve\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Delving}.] [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.
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              Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.
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              I can not delve him to the root.      --Shak.
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