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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See chevron.

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Examples

  • Suprisingly the. 50s aren't that bad due to the cheveron muzzle break (take it off and it's a beast).

    How Much Kick Can You Take? 2007

  • Either a cheveron or a bi-spherical brake can make a noticeable difference in felt recoil.

    How Much Kick Can You Take? 2007

  • Gower's arms are, Argent on a cheveron, azure, three leopard's heads, Or. Crest.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 Various

  • Let the architect's attention be directed to the western doorway, and also to the interior of the church; and here, in good preservation, he will see excellent specimens of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by the cable, the lozenge, the cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &c. &c., ornaments peculiar to the

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 Various

  • Why, that is the roundheaded fellow — I wish he hath not come to some mischief, for this is not dirt on the cheveron, but blood.

    Woodstock 1855

  • ` ` Chafron! '' exclaimed the Antiquary, --- ` ` equivalent, perhaps, to _cheveron; _ --- the word's worth a dollar, '' --- and down it went in his red book.

    The Antiquary 1845

  • That there was a church, on this spot in the Saxon times, seems almost certain, from some bricks apparently the workmanship of that people, found in the chancel; and the cheveron work round the windows of this chancel proves that the first Norman Earl of Leicester, Robert de

    A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805

  • A regular stone arch belonging to this chapel, of a circular form, with ornaments of cheveron work, was carefully taken from among the ruins of the old goal, and preserved by that industrious Antiquary and Historian of

    A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805

  • Why, that is the roundheaded fellow -- I wish he hath not come to some mischief, for this is not dirt on the cheveron, but blood.

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • My cheveron card was closed my lowes card was lowered from a 1000. to 300 which is the balance I owed I have never been late with any of these people.

    unknown title 2009

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