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DISGAVEL

\dɪsɡˈe͡ɪvə͡l], \dɪsɡˈe‍ɪvə‍l], \d_ɪ_s_ɡ_ˈeɪ_v_əl]\

Definitions of DISGAVEL

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

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To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; - said of lands.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; - said of lands.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

dis-gav'el, v.t. to relieve from the tenure of gavelkind.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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