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, arful, are used for the burial or funeral rites; as,

Come, bring my jerkin, Tibb, I'll to the arvil, You man's tea fay frozen, it makes me marvil.

Yorks. Dyal. p. 38.