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disgavelling

disgavelling is the present participle and gerund of disgavel.

Meaning of disgavel

Verb

disgavel (third-person singular simple present disgavels, present participle (US) disgaveling or (UK) disgavelling, simple past and past participle (US) disgaveled or (UK) disgavelled)

  1. (UK, transitive) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant

Questions about disgavelling

What is disgavelling the present participle and gerund of?
Disgavelling is the present participle and gerund of disgavel.

Words near disgavelling in the dictionary

  1. disgarrisoned
  2. disgarrisoning
  3. disgarrisons
  4. disgavel
  5. disgavelled
  6. disgavelling
  7. disgavels
  8. disgenic
  9. disgerminoma
  10. disgerminomas
  11. disgest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disgavelling (page history and authors); disgavel (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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