GAVELKIND

Definition: GAVELKIND

GAVELKIND

Noun

1. A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Gavelkind \Gav"el*kind`\, noun. [from Old English expression gavelkynde, gavelkende. See Gavel tribute, and Kind, noun.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Gavelkind (g hard). A tenure in Wales, Kent, and Northumberland, whereby land descended from the father to all his sons in equal proportions. The youngest had the homestead, and the eldest the horse and arms. Coke (1 Institutes, 140 a) says the word is gif eal cyn (give all the kin); but Lambarde suggests the Anglo-Saxon gafol or gavel, rent; and says it means "land which yields rent"! gavel cyn, rent for the family derived from land. There is a similar Irish word, gabhailcine, a family tenure. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Participation	Snacks, coportion, picnic, hotchpot; co-heirship, co-parceny, co-parcenary; gavelkind.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: GAVELKIND

English words defined with "GAVELKIND": Disgavel. (references)

Specialty definitions using "GAVELKIND": Cradle-land, customary heir ♦ heir by custom. (references)

"GAVELKIND" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GAVELKIND" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Derivations
	Words beginning with "GAVELKIND": gavelkinds. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-k-l-n-v"
	-2 letters: aligned, anviled, dealing, deaving, delving, evading, glaived, leading, leaking, leaving, linkage, vealing.
	-3 letters: alevin, alined, alkine, alvine, angled, ankled, dangle, deking, denial, dingle, engild, gained, genial, glaive, invade, kelvin, kilned, kindle, kinged, lading, lagend, laking, laving, ligand, linage, linked, nailed, vagile, vailed, valine, veinal, venial, vialed, vineal.
	-4 letters: agile, ailed, algid, algin, alien, align, alike, aline, alive, angel, angle, anile, ankle, anvil, daven, deign, devil, dinge, divan, eking, elain, eland, ganev, gavel, gelid, given, glade, gland, glean, glide, ideal, ingle, inked, inkle, kevil, kiang, knave, knead, laden, laked, laved, levin, liane, liang, ligan, liked, liken, lined, linga, lived, liven, naevi, naive, naked, naled, navel, nidal, nival, vakil, valid, vaned, vegan, venal, viand, vinal, vined.
	-5 letters: aged, agin, aide, akin, anil, avid, dale, dang, dank, deal, dean, deil, deli, deni, deva, dial, diel, dike, dine, ding, dink, diva, dive, egad, egal, elan, evil, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gave, geld, gied, gien, gild, gink, give, glad, gled, glen, glia, idea, idle, ilea, ilka, kadi, kail, kain, kale, kane, kiln, kina, kind, kine, king, kiva, lade, laid, lain, lake, land, lane, lang, lank, lave, lead, leak, lean, lend, leva, lied, lien, like, line, ling, link, live, nail, nave, nevi, nide, vagi, vail, vain, vale, vane, vang, veal, veil, vein, vela, veld, vena, vend, vial, vide, vied, viga, vile, vina, vine.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-k-l-n-v"
	+1 letter: gavelkinds.
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