gavel

/ˈɡa.vəl/ · noun

Meaning

Rent.
Usury; interest on money.
An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.
To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
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) The legal system as a whole.
A mason's setting maul.
To use a gavel.
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
A gable.

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