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Definition of Cheville
1. Noun. a word whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cheville
1. the peg of a stringed instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheville
Literary usage of Cheville
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... faire un coup de fourchette (= to fork) ; faire un coup de radin ; faire un
coup de roulette (='to claim a peter'); faire grippe-cheville ; faire la ..."
2. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon (1821)
"Avoir Cd- me chevillée dans le corps , to have nine lives. cheville , sf ppg or
pin ; (de vers ) botch; (du pied) ancle bone; (de beta fauve} branch. ..."
3. Switzerland: With the Neighboring Lakes of Northern Italy, Savoy, and the by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1863)
"The least experienced traveller cann->t p.,--,il,ly mistake his way,"except
between the Col de cheville and Hie bridge over the ..."
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