cavate

American  

[key-veyt] / ˈkeɪ veɪt /

adjective

1. hollowed out, as a space excavated from rock.

   cavate cliff dwellings.

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Etymology

Origin of cavate

1725–35; < Latin cavātus made hollow (past participle), equivalent to cav ( āre ) to hollow + -ātus -ate ¹

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There are several square ruins on top of the mesa above the cavate dwellings.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Plan of cavate dwelling on Rio Verde 540 246.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Later in the season the party visited the cavate ruins near Santa Clara, previously explored by Mr. Stevenson.

From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley

This formation often appears in the cliffs and small canyons bordering on the streams, and in it are found the cavate lodges.

From Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

This chamber shows a connecting link between the type of true cavate dwellings and that of cliff-houses.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter