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Defn: One who digs, as with a spade.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

^{image: by Viktor Vasnetsof, 1871}
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argal, she drown'd herself wittingly.

Other. Nay, but hear you, Goodman Delver!

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might—it scraped the coffin;

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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