_Dictionarium Teutonico-Latino-Gallicum_, that the word
_Kavel_ is used for sors, "sors in divisione bonorum:" and
among other definitions of the verb _Kavelen_, "sorte dividere
terram," which corresponds exactly with his _cavelled and
allotted_.]

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_Gootet_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--Is not this word a corruption of
_good-tide_, i.e. holiday or festival? In Halliwell's _Archæological
Dictionary_ I find,--

"Good-day, a holiday; Staff.

"Gooddit, shrovetide; North. Shrove Tuesday is called Goodies
Tuesday.

"Good-time, a festival; Jonson."

C.W.G.

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_Salt ad Montem_ (No. 24. p. 384.) _as meaning Money_.--_Salt_ is
an old metaphor for money, cash, pay; derived, says Arbuthnot, from
_salt's_ being part of the pay of the Roman soldiers; hence _salarium,
salary_, and the levying contributions at _Salt_ Hill. Your Querist
will find several explanations of the Eton Montem in the _Gentleman's
Magazine_; and a special account of the ceremony, its origin and
circumstances, in Lyson's _Mag. Brit._ i. 557.