Ge-delf
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-delf
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-delf
- Add: (1) digging, act of digging :-- Sum underdealf þá duru mid spade . . . leát tó gedelfe, Hml. S. 32, 212. 'Geopeniað þás eorðan on þyssere stówe'. . . Æt ðam forman gedelfe swégde út ormǽte wyllspring, Hml. Th. i. 562, 14, an excavation, a ditch, quarry, hole, v. leád-, stán-gedelf. ge-delf