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gavelocus

gavelocus, ~a [ME gavelok] 1 javelin, dart. s1256 Frisones ‥ ipsum cum jaculis que vulgariter ~os appellant ‥ Danisque securibus et gesis ‥ hostiliter insequebantur M. Par. Maj. V 550; 1327 de ‥ dcxl capitibus quarellorum pro springaldis, clxxij capitibus pro ~is, xix barris ferri KR Ac 16/27. 2 (iron) crowbar. 1256 furabatur j cyphum argenteum ‥ j loricam, j gavilocam ferream ad quarreram fringendum AssizeR Northumb 106; 1276 duas gavelokes ferreas IMisc 34/1; 1368 pro emendacione xxv wegis, ‥ et pro ij gavelokis ‥ ij d. Ac. Durh. 571.

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