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Definition of Gavelled
1. gavel [v] - See also: gavel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gavelled
Literary usage of Gavelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1808)
"In the thirty-first year of the reign of the same Prince, the lands of thirty-four
noblemen and gentlemen were dis-gavelled in the same manner; ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"... as it is inhabited now, by Jews. The ancestors of the bearded men you meet
lived and died in those quaint, dirty, high-gavelled houses about you. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"... an apanage to the office; this land, with the dims, or fortified residences
upon it, went to the successor, but a chiefs own property might be gavelled. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the by Sir William Blackstone, John Eykyn Hovenden, Archer Ryland (1836)
"... would not gavelled. Besides the public act men- have been the only one specified,
tioned by our author in the text above, (Wiseman v. Cotton, T. Raym. ..."
5. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1846)
"'When it is well sown, See it is well mown,— Both raked and gavelled clean.
And a barn to lay. it in. Here's a health to the man Who very well can Both ..."
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