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Cavil

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html

CAVIL, sb.2 Sur.1 I.W.2 [kæ·vl.] The chaff and refuse of wheat after threshing. See Cavings.

La paille et les déchets du blé après le battage.

CAVIL, v.2 Sh.I. Written kavle, kavvle (Jam.). To take hooks out of the mouths of large fish by means of a small stick notched at one end. Sh.I. (Jam.), Sh.&Ork.1 [Cp. ON. kefli, stick, piece of wood.]

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