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Definition of Gavelock
1. n. A spear or dart.
Definition of Gavelock
1. Noun. (rare obsolete) A spear or dart. ¹
2. Noun. (UK Scotland dialect) An iron crow or lever. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gavelock
1. a crowbar [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gavelock
Literary usage of Gavelock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland Under Elizabeth by Philip O'Sullivan-Beare (1903)
"He unhesitatingly denied the charge, alleging that gavelock was an enemy of ...
gavelock asserted that he was ready to prove the charge in single combat, ..."
2. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"It is observable that gavelock is not applied in the case of a large and heavy
crow-bar: that is simply a Bar. Gay, adj. 1. Fair or fine to look at; hence, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"to rake mown corn or hay into rows; wheat reaped and not tied in sheaves is left
in gavel. [See Gavel (1) in Hal.] [gavelock. ..."
4. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"gavelock. A javelin or spear. In the romance of " Alexander," we are told ...
A brod gavelock " occurs in the same poem. Matthew Paris under the year 1256, ..."
5. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1908)
"... attorney of the said Hugh gavelock. And because it is testified that the said
Richard Trot has nothing whereby he may be distrained to make satisfaction ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"gavelock, *. An iron crow or lever, used in quarrying stones, S. "The said second
of June the drum goes through Aberdeen, charging the haul inhabitants ..."
7. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"... upon the father's death, the youngest pot the dwelling-house, while the other
property was divided equally," MS. Explic. of Norish words. gavelock, j. ..."
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