Kevel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
  • n. A stonemason's hammer.
  • n. A gazelle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
  • n. A stone mason's hammer.
  • n. The gazelle.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See cavel.
  • n. See cavel.
  • n. A name of Antilope kavella of Pallas, a supposed species of gazel, later identified with the common gazel, A. dorcas.
  • n. Alocalname in Derbyshire, England, for the calcareous gangue of lead ore (galena).
    • Word Usage
    "We walked forward into the bows, and clearly made out the shape of a grapnel thick with shells, with its claws upon the bulwark rail of the half-ship alongside, and there was a line stretched between, belayed to what might have been a kevel on a stanchion of the craft we were in."
    Equivalent
    kevin   
    Variant
    cavil   
     
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