chevillard, n.m., carcass-butcher, meat-salesman.
*cheville, n.f., peg, pin; bolt; plug; botch, stop-gap; (poet.) line or word of necessity; (nav.) iron bolt; branch (of a deer’s head). Trouver à chaque trou une —; to find a peg for every hole. — ouvrière; pole-bolt of a coach; principal agent, mainspring of a party, of an affair. La — du pied; the ankle-bone. — à goujon; common bolt. — à goupille; forelock bolt. — à bouche et à croc; bolt with ring and hook. — à tête de diamant; square-headed bolt. — à pointe perdue; short drove-bolt. — d’affût; gun-carriage bolt. — à cosse; fender-bolt. Vous ne lui allez pas à la —; you are a pigmy compared with him; no match for him. À la —; by the carcass, or half carcass.
*chevillé, -e, adj., (her.) branched.
*cheviller, v.a., to peg or pin, to fasten with a peg; (dy.) to wring. Des vers chevillés; botched verses. Il a l’âme chevillée dans le corps; he has nine lives.
*chevillette, n.f., key or peg (of a book-binder’s sewing press).
*chevillon, n.m., turner’s peg.
*chevillot, n.m., (nav.) toggle, belaying-pin.
*chevillure, n.f., branches of a deer’s head.
chèvre, n.f., she-goat, nanny-goat; (mec.) crab, gin; crane; (astron.) capella. Enter en pied de —; to graft slopeways. Barbe-de-—; (bot.) jew’s beard. — à musc; musk goat, Thibet musk. Avoir la —, prendre la —; to take offense. Ménager la — et le chou; to run with the hare and hold with the hounds. Où la — est attachée il faut qu’elle broute; one must bow to circumstances.
chevreau, n.m., kid; kid (skin).