claviger
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clavigers
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clavigers
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Perhaps even clavus, a nail, must also be considered, for a Latin vocabulary of the fifteenth century tells us— "Claves, -vos vel -vas qui fert sit claviger."
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
Several little clavigers could be seen running here and there and everywhere through the crowd of anxious workers and timid young males and females.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
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