cavel
/ (ˈkeɪvəl) /
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noun
NZ a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface
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Word Origin for cavel
C19: from English dialect cavel to cast lots, apportion
Words nearby cavel
cave canem, cave cricket, cave dweller, cavefish, cave-in, cavel, Cavell, cave man, cavendish, Cavendish experiment, caveola
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Example sentences from the Web for cavel
Belay: To make a rope fast to a pin or cavel, without hitching or seizing.
The Sportswoman's Library, v. 2|VariousThe fore-trysail was bent to some of the mast-hoops, and the sheet fastened to a cavel on the port side.
At Aboukir and Acre|George Alfred Henty