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▪ I. chavel
a typical ME. form of the word now written jowl, jaw-blade, cheek.
▪ II. † chavel, v.|ˈtʃævəl|
Forms: 3 cheofle, chefle, cheuele, chavle, 4 chaule, 7 chavell.
[f. chavel, jowl, cheek.]
†1. intr. To wag the jaws; to chatter, talk idly. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 70 Heo grint greot þe cheofleð. Ibid. 128 Gelstreð, ase þe uox deð..& chefleð of idel. a1307Pol. Songs (1839) 240 To chaule ne to chyde.
2. trans. To mump or mumble (food). Also absol. and fig.
1610Markham Masterp. i. xii. 34 He doth, as it were, chauell or chaw a little hay. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal x, Disarm'd of teeth, this chavells with his gums. 1796Marshall, E. Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chavvle, to chew imperfectly. 1855Whitby Gloss., Chavvle, to chew imperfectly, to mumble like a toothless person. 1877E. Peacock Gloss. Manley, Linc., Chavle, to chew badly. ‘That herse chavles strangely, he wants his teeth filin'.’ 1911D. H. Lawrence White Peacock iii. vii. §6 The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter. 1916― Amores 114 Lives which sorrows like mischievous dark mice chavel To nought, diminishing each star's glitter.
Hence ˈchaveling vbl. n., chattering, ‘jawing’.
a1225Ancr. R. 100 Ved þine eien mid totunge, & tine tunge mid cheuelunge. a1250Owl & Night. 284 Mid chavling and mid chatere. Ibid. 296. |