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cavel

/ ˈɪə /

noun

  1. a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of cavel1

C19: from English dialect cavel to cast lots, apportion
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Dibee also pleaded guilty to arson tied to a fire he helped set at the Cavel West Inc. meatpacking plant in Redmond, Oregon, in 1997 and to conspiracy to commit arson in a fire at the U.S.

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Four years later after the Cavel West arson, Dibee helped destroy the Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse corrals in California.

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At the time of the Cavel West arson, Dibee was 29.

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Cavel West killed as many as 500 horses a week, shipping the meat to Europe.

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The letter — which appeared to have been written with deliberate sloppiness — denounced the Cavel West plant’s role in horse slaughter and claimed its destruction was the work of a new group of radical environmentalists.

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