Noun: delver
| Singular | delver |
| Plural | delvers |
Sample Sentences
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Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.] [1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 386:]
Nouns inflected like delver
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English delvere, from Old English delfere (“a digger”), equivalent to delve + -er. See: Middle English Nouns '
delvere', Old English Nouns '
delfere'.