tavelt

[ME., tavelt, v. [ME. tavelen, tevelen, bles: see tavel, n.] To play at tables. tavern (tav'ern), n. [Also dial. tabern; After dinner we went to a blind tavern , where Congreve, Sir Richard Temple, East court, and Charles Main were over a bowl of bad punch. Swift , Journal to Stella, Oct 27, 1710. Plenty of the old Taverns still survive to show us in what places our fathers took their dinners and drank their punch. The floor was sanded; there was a B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 3