gavels

Noun

gavels noun

1. Rent.
2. Usury; interest on money.
3. An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.

gavels noun

1. 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.
2. (metonymically) The legal system as a whole.
3. A mason's setting maul.

gavels noun

1. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

gavels noun

1. A gable.

Verb

gavels verb

1. To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.

gavels verb

1. To use a gavel.“The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.”