delf

American  

[delf] / dɛlf /

noun

plural

delfs

1. British. in some dialects, a pit, trench, or ditch.

2. British. in Northern England, a small mine or quarry.

3. Heraldry. a device, conventionally in the form of a plain square, that represents a shovelful of turf. Compare billet.

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Example Sentences

That Indian furniture would look well in here, and the old delf.

From More About Peggy by Unknown

I'm sure we had before our eyes at different times every bit of china, delf, glass, and plate in the establishment.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

And what did he carry away but straw and broken delf?

From The Green Helmet and Other Poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

He had heard a noise like the breaking of delf in the kitchen below, and he wondered if Bess had heard it too.

From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Buckland, A. R. (Augustus Robert)

I'm sure he looked it, but nobody knew; She cleaned the china, she cleaned the delf, She cleaned the baby, she cleaned herself!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn