gabel
Obsolete spelling of gable
Noun alt of, obsolete
- Obsolete spelling of gable
Forms
Noun law
- Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
- He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish. - 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
- 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. - 1662, A Treatise of...
- 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...
Origin
A form of gavel (“rent, tax”) influenced by Middle French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).