Disgavel: Definition and part of speech

Disgavel

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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