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单词 clavel
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claveln.

/ˈklavəl/
Forms: 1600s clavie, 1600s, 1800s clavy, 1800s clavey, 1600s– clavel.
Etymology: < Old French clavel, now claveau, keystone of an arch, wedge-shaped lintel of a window, door, or the like; = Provençal clavel, Catalan clavell, Italian chiavello < Latin *clāvellus diminutive of clāvus nail, peg, clinching instrument.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
The lintel over a fireplace; esp. a beam of wood so used, the mantel.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > beam over
mantel1357
balk1432
manteltree1451
mantry1530
clavel1602
chimney-bar1833
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 138 The hewed stones of the windowes, dournes, & clauels, pluct out to serue priuate buildings.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Z The fairest chimney for clauy and ieames that euer I saw.
1754 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 91 The lightning had left a mark quite cross the clavel of the kitchen-chimney.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Clavel, a mantel-piece. West. Called also..clavy.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Would you like to have a arch a-turned, or a clavel?
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) The Holmen Clavel Inn.

Compounds

clavel-board n. (also clavy-board) , clavel-piece n., clavel-tack = mantelpiece.
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1634 J. Winter Let. 18 June in J. P. Baxter Trelawny Papers (1884) 31 The Chimnay..is so large that we Can place our Chittle [sc. kettle] within the Clavell pece.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words at Clavel Called also..clavy-piece. Clavel-tack is, I believe, the shelf over the mantel-piece.
1862 W. Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 136 Just above the clavy-bwoard Wer father's spurs, an' gun, an' sword.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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