Delver

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who digs or delves, as with a spade.

    "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[.]"

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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[.]"

Etymology

From Middle English delvere, from Old English delfere (“a digger”), equivalent to delve + -er.

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