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yelve

yelve noun: a fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.

Noun

yelve (plural yelves)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) A fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.

Forms of yelve

pluralyelves

Origin of yelve

A metathesis of *yevel, from Middle English yevel, from Old English ġeafel, variant of gafol, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu, from Gaulish gabalos, gablos, from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork”).

Questions about yelve

What does yelve mean?
Yelve means a fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.
What part of speech is yelve?
Yelve is a noun.
What is the plural of yelve?
The plural of yelve is yelves.

Words near yelve in the dictionary

  1. Yeltsin
  2. Yeltsinian
  3. Yeltsinism
  4. Yeltsinite
  5. Yeltsinites
  6. yelve
  7. Yelvertoft
  8. Yelverton
  9. Yelvertons
  10. yelves
  11. Yelvington

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