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chavel

noun, verb — 2 senses

chavel

noun

/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.

1

Obsolete The jaw, especially of an animal.

Derived terms
chavel-bone

chavel

verb

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.

1

UK, Dialectal 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:

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