Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chavel-bone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables: chavel-bone
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Archaic; Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Cain kills Abel with a 'chavel-bone' (jaw bone), as according to apocryphal legend, and then hides his body under a pile of grass or hay."
"It is the cry of Electra […] of Antigone for the father, for the brother struck down by the chavel-bone of Cain, death's storm-trooper, the man of ten-thousand names and ten-thousand faces […]"
""With this chavel-bone I shall slay thee!""

Etymology

From Middle English chavylbone, chavyl bon (also as Middle English chawylbon, chawlbone, chawle boon, jawe bone > Early Modern English chawe bone, chaw-bone, jaw-bone > English jawbone), equivalent to chavel + bone. Doublet of jawbone.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: chavylbone

Usage

Inflected Forms

chavel-bones (plural) chavel bone (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

chawbone

Questions

What does chavel-bone mean?: Jawbone.
Where does chavel-bone come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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