gabel
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/ˈɡeɪbəl/
Definition of gabel
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(obsolete)Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
“He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.”
“The same Imposition might also be made on the Tin spent at home, unless it be as impossible so to do, as for the King of France to impose the Gabel upon Salt in the very places where it is made.”
“These Mercenary Officers who had no greater desire, than to demonstrate to the Emperor their Zeal and affection to his service, serewed and ravished from the Mariners by violence, illegal and unaccustomed Gabels upon all sorts of Commodities.”
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noun
-
(obsolete)Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
“He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.”
“The same Imposition might also be made on the Tin spent at home, unless it be as impossible so to do, as for the King of France to impose the Gabel upon Salt in the very places where it is made.”
“These Mercenary Officers who had no greater desire, than to demonstrate to the Emperor their Zeal and affection to his service, serewed and ravished from the Mariners by violence, illegal and unaccustomed Gabels upon all sorts of Commodities.”
- (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of gable
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
A form of gavel (“rent, tax”) influenced by Middle French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).
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