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cavel

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cavel [ˈkeɪvəl]
n
(Mining & Quarrying) NZ a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface
[from English dialect cavel to cast lots, apportion]


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We rescued our large family of draft mares literally 15 minutes before they were to be loaded onto trucks and sent to an auction near the former Cavel slaughter plant in Illinois where, according to the auction manager, they would be sold by the pound.
Houstonian Jerry Finch had for years been a leader in local and national fights to shut down Dallas Crown, Fort Worth-based Beltex Corporation and Cavel International of DeKalb, Illinois, the country's three horse slaughterhouses, which together killed 88,000 horses last year.
103) However, all efforts by modernising diviners to stage such a theatre of reason were frustrated by the refusal of the state, progressive farmers' organisations and individual sceptics to participate, prompting one to gloat: "let sceptics cavel at the cradle.
 
 
 
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