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GABEL

Definition: GABEL

GABEL

Noun

1. A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Gabel \Ga"bel\, noun. [French expression gabelle, Late Latin expression gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare to Gavel tribute.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: GABEL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Price

Dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage, likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: GABEL

Etymologies containing "GABEL": Gabelle, Gaffle. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GABEL" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (branch, cradle, fork, gable, pitchfork, receiver rest, rest, shafts, yoke).

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Commercial Usage: GABEL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Europae domus editoriae : Beiträge zur europäischen Verlagsgeschichte : Festgabe zum 25jährigen Bestehen des Gabel Verlags (reference)

  • M50.3 GABEL & SHED ROOFS VIDEO (reference)

  • St. Laurentius in Gabel und die Piaristenkirche in Wien : zwei kurvierte Kirchenbauten des Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: GABEL

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

With Poland: From the point defined above to a point to be fixed on the ground about 2 kilometres east of Lorzendorf: the fronticr as it will be fixed in accordance with Article 88 of the present Treaty; thence in a northerly direction to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania crosses the river Bartsch: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following placcs in Poland: Skorischau, Reichthal, Trembatschau, Kunzendorf, Schleise, Gross Koscl, Schreibersdorf, Rippin, Furstlich-Niefken, Pawelau, Tscheschen, Konradau, Johallnisdorf, Modzenowe, Bogdaj, and in Gerrmany: Lorzendorf, Kaulwitz, Glausche, Dalbersdorf, Reesewitz, Stradam, Gross Wartenberg, Kraschen, Neu Mittelwalde, Domaslawitz, Wedelsdorf, Tscheschen Hammer; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania northwestwards to the point where it cuts the Rawitsch-Herrnstadt railway; thence to the point where the administrative boundary of Posnania cuts the Reisen-Tschirnau road: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Triebusch and Gabel and east of Saborwitz; thence the administrative boundary of Posnania to its junction with the eastern administrative boundary of the Kreis of Fraustadt; thence in a north-westerly direction to a point to be chosen on the road between the villages of Unruhstadt and Kopnitz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing west of Geyersdorf, Brenno, Fehlen, Altkloster, Klebel, and east of Ulbersdorf, Buchwald, Ilgen,Weine, Lupitze, Schwenten: thence in a northerly direction to the northernmost point of Lake Chlop: a line to be fixed on the ground following the median line of the lakes; the town and the station of Bentschen however (including the junction of the lines Schwiebus-Bentschen and Zullichau-Bentschen) remaining in Polish territory; thence in a north-easterly direction to the point of junction of the boundaries of the Kreise of Schwerin, Birnbaum, and Meseritz: a line to be fixed on the ground passing east of Betsche; thence in a northerly direction the boundary separating the Kreise of Schwerin and Birnbaum, then in an easterly direction the northern boundary of Posnania to the point where it cuts the river Netze; thence upstream to its confluence with the Kaddow: the course of the Netze; thence upstream to a point to be chosen about 6 kilometres southeast of Schneidemuhl: the course of the Kuddow; thence north-eastwards to the most southern point of the reentant of the northern boundary of Posnania about 5 kilometres west of Stahren: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the SchneidemuhlKonitz railway in this area entirely in German territory; thence the boundary of Posnania north-eastwards to the point of the salient it makes about 15 kilometres east of Flatow; thence north-eastwards to the point where the river Kamionka meets the southern boundary of the Kreis of Konitz about 3 kilometres north-east of Grunau: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places to Poland: Jasdrowo, Gr. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Name Usage Frequency: GABEL

The following table summarizes the usage of "GABEL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GabelLast name2,0005,274
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GABEL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gabel

23

entertainment gabel

21

catlin gabel

10

elyes gabel

8

gabel scilla

7

clark gabel

6

martin gabel

5

gabel vent

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GABEL

Language Translations for "gabel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

abelgay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: GABEL

Derivations

Words beginning with "GABEL": gabelle, gabelled, gabelles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "GABEL"

Words rhyming with "GABEL" (pronounced 'Ga"bel'): BABEL, Belibel, Flabel, Interlibel, Swimbel, umbel. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GABEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bagel, belga, gable, gleba.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-l"

-1 letter: able, bale, blae, egal, gale.

-2 letters: age, alb, ale, bag, bal, beg, bel, gab, gae, gal, gel, lab, lag, lea, leg.

-3 letters: ab, ae, ag, al, ba, be, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-l"
 

+1 letter: bagels, bangle, beagle, beflag, begall, beglad, belgas, beluga, gabble, gabled, gables, gamble, garble, glebae.

 

+2 letters: algebra, bangles, beagles, beflags, begalls, beglads, belugas, bulkage, fleabag, gabbled, gabbler, gabbles, gabelle, gambled, gambler, gambles, gambrel, garbled, garbler, garbles, gelable, getable, globate, grabble.

 

+3 letters: ablegate, agitable, algebras, arguable, badgerly, ballgame, bargello, begalled, beggarly, beglamor, belaying, blackleg, blearing, bleating, blindage, blockage, bulkages, enabling, fleabags, gabblers, gabelled, gabelles, gainable, galabieh, gamblers, gamboled, gambrels, garblers, garbless, gettable, gimbaled, giveable, glabella, glabrate, globated, gnawable, grabbled, grabbler, grabbles, gradable, grazable, growable, guidable, gullable, gustable, hangable, huggable, labeling, mealybug, obligate, philabeg, singable, slugabed, tangible.

 

+4 letters: ablegates, abseiling, agreeable, agreeably, algebraic, bafflegab, bagatelle, ballgames, bargellos, barrelage, barreling, becalming, bedraggle, befalling, beflagged, befleaing, begalling, begladded, beglamors, beglamour, beladying, belauding, beleaguer, beleaping, bengaline, bewailing, bigeminal, blacklegs, bleaching, blindages, blockages, bluegrass, bricolage, cablegram, cogitable, delegable, dodgeball, eightball, embalming, emblazing, embrangle, fatigable, flambeing, forgeable, frangible, galabiehs, gambolled, generable, getatable, gimballed, glabellae, glabellar, gleanable, globalise, globalize, grabblers, grantable, graspable, grazeable, groupable, guessable, gustables, ignitable, ignorable, labelling, laughable, litigable, litterbag, mealybugs, navigable, obligated, obligates, philabegs, porbeagle, pregnable, saddlebag, sleazebag, slugabeds, stageable, tableting, tangibles, vegetable, vegetably, weighable.

 

+5 letters: algebraist, assemblage, assembling, assignable, backlogged, bafflegabs, bagatelles, balneology, barrelages, barrelling, bechalking, beclasping, becloaking, becrawling, bedabbling, bedazzling, bedraggled, bedraggles, beflagging, begladding, beglamored, beglamours, belaboring, beleaguers, bengalines, bilgewater, blabbering, blackening, blancmange, blanketing, blarneying, blathering, blattering, bricolages, bridgeable, burglaries, burglarize, cablegrams, changeable, changeably, chargeable, clabbering, clambering, coagulable, cognizable, conglobate, degradable, dodgeballs, eightballs, embattling, embrangled, embrangles, eyeballing, fiberglass, fibreglass, forgivable, globalised, globalises, globalized, globalizes, governable, greaseball, highballed, imaginable, impugnable, inarguable, intangible, integrable, liberating, litterbags, loganberry, manageable, manageably, negotiable, obligately, phlebogram, porbeagles, propagable, relabeling, saddlebags, slabbering, sleazebags, subleasing, tabletting, targetable, unarguable, upgradable, vegetables, zabaglione.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GABEL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 41 42 45 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    -...    .    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000001 01000010 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#66 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 0042 0045 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4135363946

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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