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chavel

/ˈt͡ʃævəl/

chavel noun: the jaw, especially of an animal.

Noun

chavel (plural chavels)

  1. (obsolete) The jaw, especially of an animal.

Verb

chavel (third-person singular simple present chavels, present participle chavelling, simple past and past participle chavelled)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To chew.
    • The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter.1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock

chavel meaning in Bengali

chavel in Bengali

চোয়াল, চিবানো

Forms of chavel

Noun
pluralchavels
Verb
third-person singular presentchavels
present participlechavelling
past participlechavelled
pastchavelled

Origin of chavel

From Middle English chavel (also chawl, jawle, jawe), from Old English ċeafl (“a bill, beak, snout, jaw, jaw-bone, cheek, cheek-bone”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz (“jaw”). Doublet of jowl; see there for more.

Words formed from chavel

Questions about chavel

What does chavel mean?
Chavel means the jaw, especially of an animal.
What is chavel in Bengali?
Chavel in Bengali is চোয়াল, চিবানো. See Chavel meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is chavel?
Chavel can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce chavel?
Chavel is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃævəl/.
What is the plural of chavel?
The plural of chavel is chavels.

Words near chavel in the dictionary

  1. Chavarrias
  2. Chavarry
  3. Chavasse
  4. chavdom
  5. chave
  6. chavel
  7. chavel-bone
  8. chavel-bones
  9. chavelled
  10. chavelling
  11. chavels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chavel (page history and authors); chavel (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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