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GAVELOCK
Definition of GAVELOCK
noun
A spear or dart.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English gavelock, from Old English gafeluc (“spear, javelin”), from gafol (“fork”) + -uc (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Norse gaflak, Icelandic gaflok, Old French gavelot, glavelot, French javelot, Irish gabhal (“fork”), Welsh gaflach (“fork, dart”). More at gaff, gaffle and javelin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,218)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GAVELOCK · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic, Irish, Old French, Old Norse, Welsh.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GAVELOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 78, 6 August 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
GAVELOCK starts with G and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read ACEGKLOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GAVELOCK?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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