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单词 cavel
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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|Various
  • The 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

cavel

/ (ˈkeɪvəl) /

noun

NZ a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface

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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