noun. Delftware. See ware.

noun. Anything made by delving or digging; a mine, quarry, pit, ditch, channel, etc.

noun. A catch-water drain; in a sea-embankment, the drain on the landward side. Also improperly written delph.

noun. A bed of coal or of ironstone.

noun. In heraldry, a square supposed to represent a sod of turf used as a bearing. It is one of the so-called abatements of honor, and as such is modern and false heraldry. See abatement, 3.

noun. Same as delftware.

noun. A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.

noun. A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch

noun. Alternative form of delftware. Delftware

noun. an excavation; usually a quarry or mine

"The fragments of pottery include specimens plainly not of Indian manufacture, such as fragments of porcelain, and that variety of glazed ware known as delf, and lastly, the neck of a glass bottle."

brislington delf  bristol delf  delicate long-sting  lambeth delf  liverpool delf  

excavation  

blue-glazed  catchpenny  cheape  delft  designand  

ditch  mine  quarry  

delft  delftware  delve