Middle English Dictionary Entry
arvel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | arvel n. |
| Etymology | ON, cp. OI erfi-öl; the word is still current in Northern dialects. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Funeral feast, wake.
Associated quotations
- 1459 *MS Reg.Test.Ebor.IV.249b [OD col.] : [John Alanson leaues an ox] ad distrib. inter propinquos et amicos meos, scilicet ad meum arvell.