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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[L.

divellere

;

dit-

dis-

vellere

to pluck.]

To rend apart.

[Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

A large cartilaginous fish, with a bifurcated snout; the sea duvvil of Nieuhoff.

divel ‎(third-person singular simple present divels, present participle divelling, simple past and past participle divelled)

(obsolete) To rend apart.
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