Definition of Chevalets

1. chevalet [n] - See also: chevalet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevalets

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

Literary usage of Chevalets

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

1. Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries: With a Discription of by James Stephen Jeans (1890)
"In the deeper parts of the river, which may be sometimes 12 to 15 feet, " chevalets " are driven in place of stakes. These consist generally of trunks of ..."

2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1880)
"... Chanoine borrowed his idea of moveable chevalets, supporting self-acting valves. ... or chevalets (В.) are adjusted in size and dimensions to the valves ..."

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