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Gavel

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (southwestern) : metonymic occupational name for a harvester, from javelle, a term for a sheaf of grain which was loosely bound and left on the ground to ripen.

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