Definition of Chevalet

1. a part of a stringed instrument [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevalet

chetnik
chetniks
chetotaxy
chetrum
chetrums
chetvert
chetverts
chevachie
chevachies
chevage
chevages
cheval-de-frise
cheval de frise
chevalet (current term)
chevalets
chevalier
chevaliers
chevauchée
chevaux-de-frise
chevaux de frise
chevelure
chevelures
cheven
chevens
cheventein
cheventeins
cheverel
cheverels

Literary usage of Chevalet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Water Softening and Treatment: Condensing Plant, Feed Pumps and Heaters for by William Henry Booth (1906)
"... of which one of t lie best known type is the chevalet Boby (Figs. 17, 18). It consists of a cylindrical vessel built up of several similar sections, ..."

2. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"The assistant thus holding the apparatus composed of the instrument and the chevalet, and the surgeon also grasping it with his right hand, holding with his ..."

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