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单词 kevel
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keveln.1

Brit. /ˈkɛv(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈkɛv(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈkɛv(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English, 1800s kevel, (Middle English kevil, Middle English kevyl), Middle English kevle, 1500s kewle, 1800s keevel, Scottish kewl.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse kefli.
Etymology: < Old Norse kefli a round stick, small roller, gag (Norwegian and Danish kjevle; compare Swedish käfling), related to kafli a piece, bit of anything.
Now Scottish and northern dialect.
1.
a. A gag. Obsolete.
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c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 547 A keuel of clutes..Þat he [ne] mouhte [MS. -the] speke, ne fnaste.
b. A bit or twitch for a horse's mouth.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit
kevela1300
barnaclea1382
bitc1385
molanc1400
bridle bit1438
snafflea1533
titup1537
bastonet?1561
cannon?1561
scatch1565
cannon bit1574
snaffle-bit1576
port mouth1589
watering snaffle1593
bell-bit1607
campanel1607
olive1607
pear-bit1607
olive-bit1611
port bit1662
neck-snaffle1686
curb-bit1688
masticador1717
Pelham1742
bridoon1744
slabbering-bit1753
hard and sharp1787
Weymouth1792
bridoon-bit1795
mameluke bit1826
Chiffney-bit1834
training bit1840
ring snaffle1850
gag-snaffle1856
segundo1860
half-moon bit1875
stiff-bit1875
twisted mouth1875
thorn-bit1886
Scamperdale1934
bit-mouth-
a1300 E.E. Psalter xxxi[i]. 9 In keuil and bridel þair chekes straite.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 274/1 Kevle, or kevyl, for hors, mordale, camus.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiiv/2 Kewle, postonis [read postomis].
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) One who rides a horse,..when he brings the halter under the horse's jaws and makes it pass through his mouth, is said to put a kewl on.
2. A rounded piece of wood; a staff, cudgel.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun]
sowelc893
treec893
cudgelc897
stinga900
bat?c1225
sticka1275
clubc1275
truncheon14..
bourdonc1325
bastona1400
warderera1400
plantc1400
kibble1411
playloomc1440
hurlbatc1450
ploykc1450
rung1491
libberlac1500
waster1533
batonc1550
macana1555
libbet1562
bastinado1574
crab-tree comb1593
tomahawkc1612
billeta1616
wiper1622
batoon1637
gibbeta1640
crab-bat1647
kibbo1688
Indian club1694
batterdasher1696
crab-stick1703
bloodwipea1705
bludgeon1730
kierie1731
oaken towel1739
crab1740
shillelagh1772
knobstick1783
pogamogganc1788
whirlbat1791
nulla-nulla1798
waddy1800
kevel1807
supple1815
mere1820
hurlet1825
knobkerrie1826
blackthorn1829
bastera1833
twig1842
leangle1845
alpeen1847
banger1849
billy1856
thwack-stave1857
clump1868
cosh1869
nulla1878
sap1899
waddy1899
blunt instrument1923
1807 C. Waugh Fisherman's Def. 41 The pocknet is knit upon a keevel from six to seven inches in circumference.
1836 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders III. 304 Brandishing of flails and kevels showed they were determined to act.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

keveln.2

/ˈkɛv(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English kevile, kyvile, (1600s knevel), 1600s– kevel, 1800s cavel, cavil.
Etymology: < Old Northern French keville (Godefroy Compl.) = Central French cheville pin, peg, cheville n.The French form chevil is given in sense 1 by Harris Lexicon Technicum (1704), whence in Phillips (1706), Bailey, etc., but there is no independent evidence for it.
1. A pin or hasp for fastening anything; a tilepin. (Perhaps not English.) Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg
preenOE
prickOE
kevel1251
pina1275
prag1354
key1434
peg1440
tholec1440
thole-pinc1440
lock1514
cotterel1570
pivot1730
pinning1742
steady pin1791
gib1795
needle1811
lockdown1832
cotter1842
peglet1890
pushpin1903
1251 Liberate Roll 35 Hen. III 2 July (P.R.O.) Per paviari capellam nostram et in eadem kiuellos ferri ad cathenas ad claudendum fenestras vitreas fieri. [Cf. Turner Dom. Archit. 13th C. (1851) v. 230 Iron kevils with chains to shut the glass windows.]
1303–40 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1866) (modernized text) I. 490 [Tiles were fastened, as now, by pins..These pins are also called] ‘keuills’ [printed ‘kenills’], [a name found in Southampton, Westshene, Isleworth, and London].
2. Nautical. A peg or cleat, usually fixed in pairs, to which certain ropes are belayed (see quot. 1769).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > cleat or bollard
kevelc1330
cleat1377
bollard1844
belaying-cleat1862
thumb-cleat1867
stag-horn1923
niggerhead1927
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12062 Bowlyne on bouspret to sette & hale Cordes, kyuiles [v.r. keuiles], atached þe [v.r. to] wale.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 7 Kneuels are small pieces of wood nailed to the inside of the ship, to belay the sheats and tackes vnto.
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 345/2 The Kevels are to belay the Sheets.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Knivels [1706 (ed. Kersey), Knevels or Kevels].
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Chevils or Kevils, are small Pieces of Timber nailed to the inside of a Ship to belay or fasten the Sheets and Tacks.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Kevels, a frame composed of two pieces of timber, whose lower ends rest in a sort of step or foot, nailed to the ship's side, from whence the upper ends branch outward into arms or horns, serving to belay the..ropes by which the bottoms of the main-sail and fore-sail are extended.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxvii. 187 The bight..he belayed..to the main-sheet kevel.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 73 What are ‘cavils’? Timber heads, or small bollards for belaying important ropes to, such as the main tack.

Compounds

kevel-head, kevel-headed adj.
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1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Kevel-Heads, the ends of the top timbers, which, rising above the gun-wale, serve to belay the ropes, or take a round turn to hold on.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 98 Blocks for the..lifts..are kevel-headed blocks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

keveln.3

Brit. /ˈkɛv(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈkɛv(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈkɛv(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1800s cavil.
Etymology: Etymology obscure. gavel n.3 is probably a variant of this.
Scottish and northern dialect.
A kind of hammer for rough-hewing or breaking stone (see quot. 1793); also kevel-hammer, kevel-mell.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > hammer for use on stone
pick1357
kevel-mell1360
stone-hammer1411
knapper1787
walling hammer1841
marteline1875
bush-hammer1885
1360 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 2 Pro factura ix. wegges et novo kevell et j melle ferri.
1367 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 571 Pro..pikkis, hakkis, et kevellis faciend.
1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 397 In custodia Sementarii..1 kevyll.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §108 A tool called a Kevel, which is at one end a hammer, and at the other an axe, whose edge is so short or narrow that it approaches towards the shape of a pick.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Kavel-mell, a sledge hammer, a hammer of a large size used for breaking stones.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1008 at Nidged Ashlar It is brought to the square by means of a cavil or hammer with a sharp point.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Kevel, kyevel, a stone-hammer, the common gavel. Kyevel-hammer, a heavy hammer used by stone-breakers to break up the large blocks of road metal.

Derivatives

Categories »
ˈkevel v.3 to break (stones).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

keveln.4

/ˈkɛv(ə)l/
Forms: Also keval, kevil.
Etymology: Origin obscure.
Mining. local.
The name given by Derbyshire lead-miners to a calcareous stone found mingled with the ore (see quots.).
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material within
kevel1747
comb1863
coal ball1870
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Ej Burr [is] a hard Knot or Lump in the Vein, or Sticking, of Caulk, Chirts, Kevells, &c. mixed with the Ore.
1802 J. Mawe Mineral. of Derbyshire Gloss. Kevel, a sparry substance found in the vein, composed of calcareous spar, fluor, and barytes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

keveln.5

Etymology: Given by Adanson as the name used in Senegal.
Obsolete.
A species of antelope, now identified with the common gazelle.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Antilopinae > genus Gazella (gazelle) > Gazella dorcas (dorcas gazelle)
dorce1661
kevel1759
Dorcas gazelle1821
1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 73 The second he calls the Kevel, which is rather less than the former [sc. Gazella].
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 83/2 The kevel [is] found only on the opposite side of the great African desert to that inhabited by the dorcas.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

kevelv.1

Forms: In Middle English kevylle, 1500s kewle, 1800s dialect kibble.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse kefla.
Etymology: < Old Norse kefla to bridle, gag, < kefli kevel n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈkevel.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive. To bit or bridle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > bridle, halter, collar, or reins
bridlec1330
kevela1400
halterc1440
rein?c1475
pastern1598
lock1625
to put (a horse) under the button1667
knee-halter1835
collar1884
a1400 Syr Perc. 424 (Thornton) lf. 164 Brydille hase he righte nane;..Bot a wythe hase he tane, And keuylles his stede.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hii v/2 Kewle an horse, os obstruere.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Kibble, to put the cord of a halter into a horse's mouth by way of bit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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