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

Come, bring my jerkin, Tibb, I'll to the arvil; Yon man's dea scuy seoun, it makes me marvil.

Yorksh. Dial. p. 58.