单词 | delver |
释义 | delvern. One who delves, as a tiller of the ground, or excavator. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil delverc888 tillman940 tiliec1000 acremanOE earth-tilieOE land-tiliec1275 tillerc1300 earth-tillera1325 diggerc1400 land-herd1490 earth-tilther1495 tilther1495 land-tiller?a1500 manurerc1500 tillsman1561 tilth-man1638 cultivator1661 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun] > one who carries out delverc888 trier1547 scrutinist1669 brain-picker1810 seeker after truth1840 burrower1854 researcher1883 researchist1901 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging > digger delverc888 grubbera1400 diggerc1400 graver1483 spitter1648 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xl. §6 gif se delfere ða eorþan no ne dulfe. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 102 Dykers, and Deluers þat don heore dedes ille. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. xxxvii. 84 More necessary to the land is a diker and a deluer than a goldsmyth. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 14 Nay, but heare you good man deluer . View more context for this quotation a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xii. §2. 338 The Delver bound and clogd in clowted buskin. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xii, in Poems 14 Our gentry care as little For delvers, ditchers, an' sic cattle. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 41 As careful robins eye the delver's toil. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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