FromMiddle Englishchavel (alsochawl,jawle,jawe), fromOld Englishċeafl(“a bill, beak, snout, jaw, jaw-bone, cheek, cheek-bone”), fromProto-West Germanic*kafl, fromProto-Germanic*kaflaz(“jaw”).Doublet ofjowl; see there for more.

• IPA^(key):/ˈt͡ʃævəl/

chavel (pluralchavels)

1. (obsolete) Thejaw, especially of an animal.

• chavel-bone

chavel (third-person singular simple presentchavels,present participlechavelling,simple past and past participlechavelled)

1. (transitive,UK,dialectal) Tochew.
   • 1911,D. H. Lawrence,The White Peacock:

     The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken andchavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter.

• cheval

• chevel,chaule,chawel,chavyl,chawil,chawyl,chavalle,chaul,chewil,chawle,chawl
• chefle,chafle(Early Middle English)
• jawe,jawle(influenced by the syn.joue)

FromOld Englishċeafl, fromProto-West Germanic*kafl, fromProto-Germanic*kaflaz.

• IPA^(key):/ˈt͡ʃaːvəl/,/ˈt͡ʃavəl/

chavel (pluralchavelesorchaulesorchoules)

1. jaw
2. oralcavity,pharynx,throat
3. jabber,gossip

• chavelen
• jolle

• jollen

• English:jowl,chavel
• Scots:chowl,chow,chew
• Yola:choule

• “chā̆vel,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

• tgavel
• chavè
• cavegl

FromLatincapillus.

chavel m (pluralchavels)

1. (single strand of)hair