Obs. [Given by Adanson as the native name in Senegal.] A species of antelope, now identified with the common gazelle.
1759. trans. Adanson’s Voy. Senegal.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. II. iii. 307–8. The … second he calls the Kevel, which is rather less than the gazella.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 83/2. The kevel [is] found only on the opposite side of the great African desert to that inhabited by the dorcas.
Kevel, kevil: see CAVEL sb.1 and 2.
