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gaveller|ˈgævɪlə(r)|
Forms: 3–4 gaveler, gouler, 4 gavelere, 5 govelere, gowlare, 8–9 gaveller.
[f. gavel n.1 + -er1.]
†1. A usurer. Obs.
c1200Vices & Virtues (1888) 77 Fullȝewiss hie bieð idemd for gouleres, and al swulch lean hie sculen ðarof habben alse gaueleres, ðat is, helle pine. c1275XI Pains Hell 130 in O.E. Misc. 150 Such is heore pyne þer Vor heo weren gauelers her. a1300E.E. Psalter cviii. 11 [cix. 10] (Horstm.) Ransake mote gaueler [L. fenerator] his aghte. 1340Ayenb. 35 Þise byeþ gaueleres kueade and uoule. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 124 A gouelere doth aȝens þe old lawe. c1440Promp. Parv. 206 Gowlare, or vserere, usurarius.
2. Mining. In the Forest of Dean: An officer of the Crown who grants ‘gales’ to the miners.
c1692Parsons in Nicholls Forest Dean (1858) 56 The head Gaviler of the Forest. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3810/5 We Your Majesties Gaveller, and Miners of the Forest of Deane in the County of Glocester. 1824J. Mander Derbysh. Miner's Gloss., Gavelor or Gaverler or Gafler..an officer among the Miners, in the Forest of Dean. 1884Law Times 31 May 78/2 A freeminer made an application to the gaveller for a grant to him of one of the two gales, on the ground that M. had forfeited them..by non-working. 1885Pall Mall G. 26 June 3/2 A ‘gaveller’ has been appealed to..He is an officer whose functions arise out of the Royal forest.
3. Hist. One who pays ‘gavel’ for land rented.
1862E. W. Robertson Scotl., etc. II. 270 Except in the case of the Gavellers of East Kent, military tenure seems to have prevailed with hardly any exception. 1872― Hist. Ess. Introd. 54 He made them..Gavellers. |