kevel

He had always favored the kevel as a weapon.

Jack dropped all, scrambled forward, caught two turns round the kevel and slid back to the tiller.

Ramage walked over to where Jackson had the cutter's painter hitched round a kevel.

Catch a couple of turns round the kevel - the kevel.'

Paul Hilder, 1989, introduction by Bruce Horwith and Kevel Lindsay.

The "Buur Kevel(s)" or "Buur Geweel(s)" were very wealthy and powerful.

The "Buur Kevel" or "Buur Geweel" (the Head Griot of the King).