Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dele

Dele , imperative sing.

[Compare Delete.]

(Printing) Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: d.

Dele , transitive verb

[From the preceding word.]

(Printing) To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.

Dele , transitive verb

[See Deal.]

To deal; to divide; to distribute. [Obsolete] — Chaucer