An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

To CAVE, KEVE, v. a.
1. To push, to drive backward and forward, S.
2. To toss. "To cave the head," to toss it in a haughty or awkward way, S.
Cleland.

To Cave over, v. n. To fall over suddenly, S.
Melvill's MS.

Cave, s.
1. A stroke, a push, S.
2. A toss.

Isl. akafr, cum impetu, vehementer.

To Cave, v. a.
1. To separate grain from the broken straw, after threshing, S. B.
2. To separate corn from the chaff, S. A.

Teut. kav-en, eventilare paleas; or the v. both as signifying to toss, and to separate, may be viewed as the same with Isl. kaf-a volutare; kafa i heya, to toss, ted, or cave hay.

CAVEL, CAUIL, CAFLE, KAVEL, KEVIL, s.
1. Expl. "a rod, a pole, a long staff."
Chr. Kirk.

Su. G. kafle, pertica, bacillus; Germ. keule, a club.

2. A lot, S. keul, S. A.

Hence, "to cast cavels," to cast lots. Cavel, id. Northumb.
Wallace.
3. By Rudd. cavillis is not only translated lots, but "responses of oracles."
Douglas.
4. State appointed, allotment in Providence, S. B.
Ross.
5. A division or share of property, as being originally determined by lot, S. B.
Law Case.