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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1734, 1825-1929
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AVAL(D), Avel(l), Yaavel, (Y)avil, Yaval, n.2, adj.2, v. See Awal(d), n.
1. n. A crop sown the second year on the same field.See also Yaval.Abd. 1734 Monymusk Papers (1945) 29:
Ferm meal, made of totch avald and intoun corns.Kcb. 1828 W. McDowall Poems 25:
My avell's struck wi' poverty Like a sour boggy stank.
2. adj. (See quots.)Ork. 1929 Marw.:
Yaavel land or crop, stubble-land (after a cereal crop) which is sown with a cereal crop a second time consecutively. [Prob. borrowed from ne.Sc.]ne.Sc. 1881 W. Gregor Folk-Lore North-East Scot. 179:
The next crop [i.e. the second from lea] was also of oats and was named the "yaavel crap." . . . The land was then manured and sown with bere.Mry. 1825 Jam.2:
Yavil, the second crop after lea.w.Sc. 1869 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 720:
An avald crop is the second white crop in succession on the same land.Gall. 1825 Jam.2:
Awald-crap, the second crop after lea . . . Avil, Galloway.Gall.1 1914:
An avel crop = the second white crop in succession of a rotation.
3. v. (See quot.)Kcb.1 1925:
To aval a field, is to take a second crop of corn off it.
4. In transferred senses: (1) yavil-bachelor, a widower (Gregor D.Bnff. (1866) 213); (2) yaval broth, "second day's broth," T.S.D.C. I. (1914) 15 (the form yaval being there given for Abd., Bnff., Mry.).
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