gavel
(noun) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gavel (countable and uncountable, plural gavels)
(historical) Rent.
(obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
(historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.
gavel (third-person singular simple present gavels, present participle gavelling or gaveling, simple past and past participle gavelled or gaveled)
(transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
gavel (plural gavels)
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
(metonymically, chiefly, US) The legal system as a whole.
A mason's setting maul.
gavel (third-person singular simple present gavels, present participle gavelling or gaveling, simple past and past participle gavelled or gaveled)
To use a gavel.
• In US English, the participles are gaveled and gaveling; in British English they are gavelled and gavelling.
gavel (plural gavels)
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
gavel (plural gavels)
(Scotland, architecture) A gable.
• glave
Source: Wiktionary
Gav"el, n.
Definition: A gable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Gav"el, n. Etym: [OF. gavelle, F. javelle, prob. dim. from L. capulus handle, fr. capere to lay hold of, seize; or cf. W. gafael hold, grasp. Cf. Heave.]
Definition: A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. Wright.
Gav"el, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
1. The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
2. A mason's setting maul. Knight.
Gav"el, n. Etym: [OF. gavel, AS. gafol, prob. fr. gifan to give. See Give, and cf. Gabel tribute.] (Law)
Definition: Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel. Cowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 May 2025
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