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Gavillok, Gavelo(c)k, n. Also: gavillock, gavellok, gavlock; gawillok, -elok, gaw-, gewlock; gaiflo(c)k; galok, gaylo(c)k. [e.m.E. gavelocke crowbar (1558), ME. gavilok, gavelok, -loc (1183), OE. gafeluc javelin.] An iron crowbar or lever.(a) 1451 Exch. R. V. 422.
Pro una vanga, tribulo, et le gavillok de ferro a1500 Seven S. 1744.
Than to that port thai passit richt With spaide and gavillok & mattok wicht 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 349.
For xiij stane of irne to mak grath to Mons new cradill and gavilokks to ga with her 1513 Ib. IV. 493.
[For a vessel] vj gavillokis, ij crawis, ij pikkis, xl dyis irne weyand iiij wawis 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 320.
To David Grahame, masoun, to wyn the stanis with ane gavillok 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 136.
Ane gavillok and ane litill pik 1610 Crim. Trials III. 91.
Providit … of gavillokis, craw-irnes, fyles, and otheris work-lowmes 1661 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 471.
Ane iron quarrell mell, twa gavillockis(b) 1512 Treas. Acc. IV. 460.
For ane wall iryne to mak gawelokis for the gwnnys 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 326.
Laid upoun ane greit gawellok iij quarteris of irne 1594 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 102.
Certane mattokis, gavellokis, and vtheris warklomes … for demolischeing … of housis and fortalices 1618 Linlithgow Palace 341.
For working twa stane of irone in twa gavelockis 1640 Fam. Innes 167.
For quarrell mell, twa gavelokis, hameris, pekis, wedgis 1698 Foulis Acc. Bk. 229.
Inventur of quarrell graith, a great quarrell mell, … 2 gavelocks and a pinch [etc.](c) 1561–3 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 386.
To the smyth for making of small botts and ane gewlok Ib. 396.
For mending of pikkis and gawloks the samyn oulk 1654 Edinb. Test. LXVII. 213.
Ane iron gavlock & ane how 1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 221.
[To send two workmen] with speds, shooles, gawlacks, … [to demolish and slight the walls](d) 1555–6 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 197.
For scharping of the pikkis and gaifloks all this yeir 1611 Edinb. Test. XLVI. 226.
Twa pickis, ane gaiflok, ane mattok 1617–8 M. Works Acc. XVI. 3.
For making of a gaiflock, howes, mattocks, and wadges(e) 1536 Ayr Common Good MS.
For ane turs of stra, vj d … .Item for ij galokkis making, vj d. 1605 Black Bk. Taymouth 344.
At the yet … Ane eitch, … a mekill gaylock