[Our correspondent will find, on referring to Kilian's
_Dictionarium Teutonico-Latino-Gallicum_, that the word
_Kavel_ is used for sors, "sors in divisione bonorum:" and
among other definitions of the verb _Kavelen_, "sorte dividere
terram," which corresponds exactly with his _cavelled and
allotted_.]
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_Gootet_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--Is not this word a corruption of
_good-tide_, i.e. holiday or festival? In Halliwell's _Archæological
Dictionary_ I find,--
"Good-day, a holiday; Staff.
"Gooddit, shrovetide; North. Shrove Tuesday is called Goodies
Tuesday.
"Good-time, a festival; Jonson."