escaravellar

• escarvallar, esgaravellar

Probably from escarvar.

• IPA^(key): /eskaɾaβeˈʎaɾ/

escaravellar (first-person singular present escaravello, first-person singular preterite escaravellei, past participle escaravellado)

1. to dig superficially; to turn over the ground

   Synonyms: escarvar, escavichar

   Escaravellou o galo, e descubriu o coitelo para matalo. (proverb) ― The rooster dug and found the knife which killed it.

   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferro-carril Compostelano:

     Os meus Seores traballaron con tan donoso amorío, dempois que se esperguisaron polo tempo mal perdido; tanto afincaron a cousa, con tal xeito e con tal brío; puxeron o chan da terra das malas herbas tan limpo, e tan esgaravellado, tan revirado e espelido, que ao fin veu a semente! ¡ai, qué semente, veciños! Por eso arrigou aa présa sin deixar tempo a un suspiro, aínda ben non lle tocou a semente ao chan moído

     My gentlemen worked with the most jaunty love, after they had stretched out because of the wasted time; so much they struggled with the thing, with such expertise and such vigour; they made the ground of the earth so clean of weeds, and so dug up, and so upturned and spongy, that at the end the seed came! And what a seed, my neighbors! That's why it grew hastily, giving no time to a sigh, when the seed had barely touched the milled soil

2. to poke

   Synonym: furgar

• “escaravellar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escaravellar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escaravellar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.