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Definition of Delvers
1. delver [n] - See also: delver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delvers
Literary usage of Delvers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1863)
"STEAM DIGGERS AND delvers. That spade husbandry as practised by gardeners is a
superior system of cultivating laiul to ploughing with horses as now followed ..."
2. The Memoirs of Paul Kruger: Four Times President of the South African Republic by Paul Kruger (1902)
"In order to assist the new population as much as possible in their difficulties,
a new committee was established, known as the " delvers" or Mining ..."
3. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1843)
"From what has been stated, it will be readily understood that, previous to the
setting of this machine to work, the delvers and crushers can be fixed so as ..."
4. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"In Piers Plowman we have the dykers and delvers doing a bad day's work, and
singing scraps of French songs for pastime:— Dykers and delvers that don here ..."
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