delf

/D EH1 L F/
noun
  1. 1

    (education) Diplôme d'étude de langue française, a French-language qualification.

  2. 2

    (heraldry) A charge representing a square sod of turf, traditionally taking the form of a simple square (e.g. in the middle of an escutcheon), although modernly sometimes represented with the grass in profile.

  3. 3

    (archaic, UK, dialectal) A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.

  4. 4

    Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”). [A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.]