| 释义 |
delver|ˈdɛlvə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er.]
One who delves, as a tiller of the ground, or excavator.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xl. §6 ᵹif se delfere ða eorþan no ne dulfe. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 102 Dykers, and Deluers þat don heore dedes ille. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxxvii. (1483) 84 More necessary to the land is a diker and a deluer than a goldsmyth. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 15 Nay but heare you Goodman deluer. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xii. §2 (1622) 338 The Delver bound and clogd in clowted buskin. 1787Burns Twa Dogs 90. 1859 Tennyson Enid 774 As careful robins eye the delver's toil.
fig.1859Holland Gold. F. v. 75 The delver in the stratified history of the race. |