ARVIL-SUPPER, a feast or entertainment made at funerals, in the north part of England. Arvil-bread is the bread delivered to the poor at funeral solemnities: and arvil, arval, arsal, are used for the burial or funeral rites; as,
Come, bring my jerkin, Tibb, I'll to the arvil;
Yon man's dea feuy seoun, it makes me marvil.
Torkb. Dial. p. 53.