Chavel

//ˈt͡ʃævəl// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The jaw, especially of an animal. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To chew. UK, dialectal, transitive

    "The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter."

Synonyms

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chew

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"The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter."

Etymology

From Middle English chavel (also chawl, jawle, jawe), from Old English ċeafl (“a bill, beak, snout, jaw, jaw-bone, cheek, cheek-bone”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz (“jaw”). Doublet of jowl; see there for more.

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chavel-bone

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