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chavel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈt͡ʃævəl/

Etymology

From Middle English chavel (also chawl, jawle, jawe), from Old English ċeafl (“a bill, beak, snout, jaw, jaw-bone, cheek, cheek-bone”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz (“jaw”). Doublet of jowl; see there for more.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) The jaw, especially of an animal.

Forms

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chavels Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

chavel-bone

chavel en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈt͡ʃævəl/

Etymology

From Middle English chavel (also chawl, jawle, jawe), from Old English ċeafl (“a bill, beak, snout, jaw, jaw-bone, cheek, cheek-bone”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz (“jaw”). Doublet of jowl; see there for more.

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To chew.
    • The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter. 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock:

Forms

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chavels Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
chavelling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chavelled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chavelled Tense=Past lexicographic