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Delf   Listen
noun
Delf  n.  (Written also delft, and delve)  A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. (Obs.) "The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could... keep them dry."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Delf" Quotes from Famous Books



... serviceable and comfortable. The floors were as yet uncarpeted, but now that April was come the carpets were hardly missed. Then, too, the few choice pictures upon the walls, the ingenious bookcase and the more ingenious plate and cup-rack displaying honest delf and some bits of choice china, the draping curtains of muslin and cretonne, all spoke of cultivated minds and refined tastes. Staring wants there were, and many discrepancies and incongruities, but no vulgarities nor coarseness nor tawdriness. What they had was fitting. ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... don't!" "She'll recover!" "She won't!" "She's stirring! she's living, by Nemesis!" Gold, still gold! on counter and shelf! Golden dishes as plenty as delf; Miss Kilmansegg's coming again to herself On an ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood



Words linked to "Delf" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, excavation, U.K., Great Britain



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