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Cavell

or Cavel. A parcel or allotment of land measured by a cord or cable. (German, kabel, whence kaveln, to assign by lot.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cavall
Cave-dwellers
Cave In
Cavê ne literas Bellerophontis adferras
Cave of Achadh Aldai
Cave of Adullam (The)
Cave of Mammon
Caveat
Caveat Emptor
Cavell
Cavendish Tobacco
Caviare
Cavo-rilievo
Caxon
C. D
Cean
Ceca to Mecca (From)
Cecilia (St.)
Cecil’s Fast
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