Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.
A metathesis of *yevel, from Middle English yevel, from Old English ġeafel, variant of gafol, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu, from Gaulish gabalos, gablos, from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork”).
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