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单词 gavelock
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gavelockn.

/ˈɡavələk/
Forms: Old English gafeluc, gaveluc, Middle English gaveloc, Middle English–1500s gavelok ( gaw-), Middle English gavilok, gavylok, 1500s gaiflok, 1500s–1600s gavelocke, 1800s gav'loc(k), gowelock, dialect geavelock ( -lick), Middle English, 1600s– gavelock.
Etymology: Old English gafeluc strong masculine has the form of a regular diminutive of gafel, geafel fork (see gable n.1); the senses, however, are somewhat difficult to account for on this view of the etymology: evidence is lacking for the supposition that the word originally meant a forked or barbed arrow (compare fork n. 9) and a forked crowbar. Words of closely similar form and meaning are Old Norse gaflak , gaflok neuter javelin (perhaps adopted < English), Welsh gaflach (said to mean ‘bearded arrow’), Irish gabhla lance, Old Northern French gavelot (12th cent.), gaverlot , gavrelot , garlot (= Central French javelot , Italian giavelotto ) javelin, whence Middle Dutch gavelot , gaverloot , Middle High German gabilôt ; see also gaff n.1 The relation between the words is uncertain. Thurneysen, followed by most recent etymologists, regards the Romanic word as of Celtic origin; the Old English word may possibly be adopted from the Old French (though recorded earlier) or from its source.
Obsolete exc. Historical and dialect.
1. A spear for throwing; a dart, javelin.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > specific for throwing
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wifleOE
dartc1330
gavelot14..
pilec1400
hurlbatc1450
javelot1489
espiot1490
javelin1513
archegay1523
framea1545
zagaie1590
bourdonasse1596
assegai1600
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 143/6 Hastilia, gafelucas.
c1050 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses I. 4238 Catapultas, gauelucas.
1183 Jocelin de Brakelonda (Camden) 35 Baculum meum excussi ad modum teli quod vocatur gaveloc.
a1259 Matth. Paris anno 1256 (Rolls) V. 550 Frisones igitur..ipsum Willelmum cum jaculis, quae vulgariter gavelocos appellant, quorum maxime noticiam habent et usum..hostiliter insequebantur.
a1300 E.E. Psalter (Horstm.) liv. 22 [lv. 21] Nesched als oyle his saghs bene, And þai ere gauelokes [L. jacula] þam bitwene.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 297 Þe Waleis partie had vmbilaid þe brigge. With gauelokes and dartes suilk ore was non sene.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 1426 Thai hurte him foule and slough his hors With gauylokes and wyth dartis.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xviii. 300 I saugh hem launche at hym knyves and gavelokkes and dartes.
a1650 Merlin 2138 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 489 [He] bare a gauelocke in his hand.
1817 J. F. Pennie Royal Minstrel v. 390 Two hundred spearmen, bearing each His gav'loc crown'd with a stern warrior's head.
2. An artificial spur for a fighting cock. Obsolete. (Cf. gablock n. 1, gaff n.1 3a, gaffle n. 3, gafflet n.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting > spur
gablocksa1672
gaff1688
spur1688
gavelock1698
gafflet1714
gaffle1755
sickle-
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 175 Cocks as big as Turkies: which they Arm with Razors tied flat under the Claws, and faulched Two Inches, instead of Gavelocks.
3. An iron crowbar or lever. (Cf. gablock n. 2.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]
lever1297
speke1366
crowa1400
gavelock1497
prisea1500
handspoke1513
porter1538
sway1545
handspike1559
heaver1598
coleweigh1600
handspeek1644
forcer1649
ringer1650
ripping-chisel1659
pinch1685
crow-spike1692
Betty1700
wringer1703
crowbar1748
spike1771
pry1803
jemmy1811
crow-iron1817
dog1825
pinchbar1837
jimmy1848
stick1848
pry bar1872
peiser1873
nail bar1929
cane1930
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 349 Item, giffin for xiij stane of irne, to mak grath to Mons new cradill, and gavilokkis to ga with hir.
1558 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 80 viij. mylne pycke ij axes one gavelocke of iron.
c1632 Inventory Goods All-Saints Church Newcastle in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) I. 370 One iron gavelock, and one swea tree with two rolles for taking and laying down lairstones.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel i. 6 Thou sawest moreover a Stone cut out without hands, no man with Axe or Gavelock dissevering it.
1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 107 Nin like thee cud fling the geavelick.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 758 The greater part of the matters contained in the [lead] furnace is drawn over on the work-stone, by means of a large rake called a gowelock.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 69 Geavelock, a large iron crowbar for raising stone.
1880 Antiquary Apr. 187 On trying the ground on the north side of the fence with a gavelock, they came on the cover of a cist.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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