delve
verb
[ dɛlv ]
• reach inside a receptacle and search for something.
• "she delved in her pocket"
Similar:
search (through),
hunt through,
scrabble about/around in,
root about/around in,
ferret (about/around) in,
fish about/around in,
poke about/around in,
dig in,
grub about/around in,
go through,
burrow in,
rifle through,
scour,
ransack,
turn upside down,
turn inside out,
rootle around in,
fossick through,
roust around in,
• dig; excavate.
• "when Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"
Origin:
Old English delfan ‘dig’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch delven .
