Definition of Kevels

1. Noun. (plural of kevel) ¹

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Definition of Kevels

1. kevel [n] - See also: kevel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kevels

kettles of fish
kettlesful
kettling
kettnerite
ketubah
ketubahs
ketubbah
ketubbahs
ketubbot
ketubot
ketyl
ketyls
keuper
keurboom
kevel
kevels (current term)
keverchief
keverchiefs
kevil
kevils
kevin
kewl
kewler
kewlest
kewpie
kewpies
kex
kexes
key
key-cold

Literary usage of Kevels

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

1. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1880)
"204.) WE were sisters, sisters seven, Bowing down, bowing down ; The fairest women under heaven. And aye the birks a-bowing. They kiest kevels them amang, ..."

2. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"3 There fell a dispute us amang, Wha would to the greenwood gang. 4 They kiest the kevels them amang, O wha would to the greenwood gang. ..."

3. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"Keuper of Germany [Ger. kupfer, copper} — uppermost division, red sandstones and marls, with salt and alabaster ; of the Triassic period. kevels ..."

4. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"kevels, OR CAVILS. Large cleats, or also pieces of oak passing through a mortice in the rail, and answer the- purpose of timber-heads for belaying ropes to. ..."

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