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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spelunk

"a cave, cavern, a vault," c.1300, from Old French spelonque (13c.) or directly from Latin spelunca "a cave, cavern, grotto," from Greek spelynx (accusative spelynga, genitive spelyngos) "a cave, cavern," from spelos "a cave." An adjective, speluncar "of a cave" is recorded from 1855.

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spelunk

n. (context obsolete English) A cave, cavern or grotto. vb. To explore caves.

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spelunk

v. explore natural caves [syn: cave]

Usage examples of "spelunk".

And it was galling to the priest that young Basque cavers, boys who should have chosen their idols from the ranks of the priesthood, told stories of his spelunking exploits and of the time he had crossed with Le Cagot into Spain and broken into a military prison in Bilbao to release ETA prisoners.

Some more spelunking took him to the Geocities page of a person born male who underwent castration, with no hormonal treatments before or for years after.

He dared me to face all kinds of adventures: whitewater rafting, technical climbing, spelunking.