chavel

See also: čhavêl

English

Etymology

From Middle English chavel, 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃævəl/

Noun

chavel (plural chavels)

1. (obsolete) The jaw, especially of an animal.

Derived terms

• chavel-bone

Verb

chavel (third-person singular simple present chavels, present participle chavelling, simple past and past participle chavelled)

1. (transitive, UK, dialectal) To chew.
   • 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock:

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

Anagrams

• cheval

Middle English

Alternative forms

• chevel, chaule, chawel, chavyl, chawil, chawyl, chavalle, chaul, chewil
• chefle, chafle (Early Middle English)
• jawe, jawle (influenced by the syn. joue)

Etymology

From Old English ċeafl, from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaːvəl/, /ˈt͡ʃavəl/

Noun

chavel (plural chaveles)

1. jaw

Descendants

• English: jowl, chavel
• Scots: chowl, chow, chew
• Yola: choule

References

• “chā̆vel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• tgavel
• chavè
• cavegl

Etymology

From Latin capillus.

Noun

chavel m (plural chavels)

1. (single strand of) hair