"kevil" meaning in English

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          "text": "1821 [1802], Walter Scott (transcriber), Fause Foodrage, W. Scott (editor) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3, 5th edition, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, page 4,\nAnd they cast kevils them amang, / And kevils them between; / And they cast kevils them amang, / Wha suld gae kill the king."
        },
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          "text": "1887, Transactions of the Buchan Field Club, Volumes 1-2, Buchan Field Club, page 176,\n\"Casting the kevils\" was and still is a common mode of deciding a thing."
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      "glosses": [
        "A lot (object used to determine a question by chance or independently of human choice)."
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          "lot"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A lot (object used to determine a question by chance or independently of human choice)."
      ],
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        "Scotland"
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            "Transport",
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          "ref": "1898, Annual Reports of the War Department, U.S. War Department, page 3184",
          "text": "The following new ones will have to be supplied: Two pairs of sheave chocks similar to those now in use on board, and twelve large kevils at least four feet long and of heavy pattern."
        },
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          "ref": "1935, Walter Henry Johnston, Building a Little Ship:",
          "text": "The halliard is belayed on the kevil with figure-of-eight turns (not hitched), and the coil is carried up to the pin-rail, where the 1-inch rope is passed round it, the eye at the end of this rope being finally passed over the pin.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship."
      ],
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          "sturdy",
          "sturdy"
        ],
        [
          "belaying pin",
          "belaying pin"
        ],
        [
          "cable",
          "cable"
        ],
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          "ship",
          "ship"
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        "(nautical) A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship."
      ],
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        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "kevil"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "1821 [1802], Walter Scott (transcriber), Fause Foodrage, W. Scott (editor) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3, 5th edition, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, page 4,\nAnd they cast kevils them amang, / And kevils them between; / And they cast kevils them amang, / Wha suld gae kill the king."
        },
        {
          "text": "1887, Transactions of the Buchan Field Club, Volumes 1-2, Buchan Field Club, page 176,\n\"Casting the kevils\" was and still is a common mode of deciding a thing."
        }
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        "A lot (object used to determine a question by chance or independently of human choice)."
      ],
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          "lot",
          "lot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A lot (object used to determine a question by chance or independently of human choice)."
      ],
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        "Scotland"
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          "ref": "1898, Annual Reports of the War Department, U.S. War Department, page 3184",
          "text": "The following new ones will have to be supplied: Two pairs of sheave chocks similar to those now in use on board, and twelve large kevils at least four feet long and of heavy pattern."
        },
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          "ref": "1935, Walter Henry Johnston, Building a Little Ship:",
          "text": "The halliard is belayed on the kevil with figure-of-eight turns (not hitched), and the coil is carried up to the pin-rail, where the 1-inch rope is passed round it, the eye at the end of this rope being finally passed over the pin.",
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        "A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship."
      ],
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          "sturdy",
          "sturdy"
        ],
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          "belaying pin",
          "belaying pin"
        ],
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          "cable",
          "cable"
        ],
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          "ship",
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        "(nautical) A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship."
      ],
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      ]
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  "word": "kevil"
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