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Definition of Gavelocks
1. gavelock [n] - See also: gavelock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gavelocks
Literary usage of Gavelocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... nor yet so sober—but send a' the four bunder men wi' their spades, and shovels,
and pick-axes, and gavelocks, and barrows, hannd and horrel'd, ..."
2. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1858)
"... 2 iron gavelocks and 5 hook pins, 3s. 6d.; 9 weeks table and attendance at
Goole not being able to put on his own clothes, 18s. 1680. ..."
3. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"... probably be gast) frighten away. gaun, going. gavelocks, (javelins) iron crows.
gear, goods, property; 16, spoil. ged, went. geir, same as gear, ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1886)
"... now appertaining to the city treasurer : they were also custodians of the
city's small goods, such as picks, gavelocks, etc, and executed small repairs. ..."
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