Meaning of chavel-bone | Babel Free

Definitions

Jawbone.

archaic, obsolete

Examples

“Cain kills Abel with a 'chavel-bone' (jaw bone), as according to apocryphal legend, and then hides his body under a pile of grass or hay.”

“It is the cry of Electra […] of Antigone for the father, for the brother struck down by the chavel-bone of Cain, death's storm-trooper, the man of ten-thousand names and ten-thousand faces […]”

“"With this chavel-bone I shall slay thee!"”

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