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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
GAVELMED. GAVELOCK—. GAZAXIA. bets of the Greensand formation. It is
rarely more than 100 feet in thickness, and contains many organic remains.
Gaulthekia, gawl-rte 're-a, «. (in honour of M. Gaulter, a Canadian botanist and
physician.) ...
John Craig (F.G.S.),
1859
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A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative ...
Gavelock, sb. (pr. geeavlok). A crow-bar, an iron bar of sufficient dimensions to
be used in moving weighty masses of stone, &c. Garnett quotes Welsh gaflacb, a
fork, as the origin of Gavelock. Besides which we have O. N. gaflok, S. G. gaffiak ...
John Christopher Atkinson,
1868
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Transactions of the Philological Society
This trisyllabic gavelock slips, by an easy process, into gellock or gulock, ' an iron
crow-bar.' Such a crowbar, as Jamieson observes, often ends in two teeth, useful
perhaps for prising the lid of a box where a nail presents itself. Be this as it may ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
GAVELOCK, s. An iron crow or lever, S.~\Add; " The said second of June the
drum goes through Aberdeen, charging the haill inhabitants incontinent to bring
to the tolbooth the haill spades, shovels, mells, mattocks, barrows, picks,
gavelocks, ...
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A Bibliography of English Etymology
1964: 53 gib2* a hook see gavelock gib3 restive horse; the mouth of a horse (
gibbet) Braune, Wilhelm. 1912b: 80n; ——— . 1922: 133, 133n, 151; hodgkin,
John Eliot. 1863a gibberish foolish talk (jabber* / jabble / jibber) Braune, Wilhelm.
Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson,
2010
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Gellock is merely the provincial pron. of Gavelock, q. v. GELORE, Galore, Giloee,
s. Plenty, abundance, S.B.] Add; Galore is used in the same sense, South of S.
Good turrs he had ever galore ; His eildin he seldom saw done. A. Scott's Poems
...
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Dialect of south Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and ...
Gdblock, a gavelock, an iron bar, a weapon. Gabble, confused talk. Gddlin !
godlin ! an exclamation. Gadd, to run about. Gddster, one who gads. Gaffer, an
aged man. Gaight, gave it ; gant, the same, " He gant meh." Gainer, nearer ; "
That's a ...
John Collier, Samuel Bamford,
1854
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The Olio: Or, Museum of Entertainment ...
A few more strides brought him to Hie very door, when, without any further
preliminary, he applied the gavelock to an interstice, and with violent force
inserted the pointed weapon for some depth between the door and its framing ;
— exerting ...
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The Publications of the Surtees Society
Л gavelock, an iron crow or lever, used in raising stones in a quarry, and fur other
similar purposes. The word is still in common use. Gersma, lix ; Gersuma, lxxiv ;
Garsom, exxxi ; Ghesuma, lxxxiii ; Gressumma, cxii. A sum of money paid as an ...
104; Sternberg, Northampton Glossary). Cf. cloak, a blackbeetle (Dalyell, Darker
Superstitions of Scotland, p. 564). In Scotland gelloch or gellock is a contracted
form of gavelock, an earwig, so called from its forked tail ; gavelock also meaning
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