gavel
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Synonyms: ravel, navel, cavel, gravel, javel, gabel, gazel, avel, favel, tavel, gave
Antonyms: ravel, navel, cavel, gravel, javel, gabel, gazel, avel, favel, tavel, gave
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Noun
- 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; also called gavelkind.
Verb
- To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
Noun
- 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.
- The beginning or end of legal proceedings.
- The legal system as a whole.
- A mason's setting maul.
Verb
- To use a gavel.
- To begin or end legal proceedings
- The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.
Noun
- A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Noun
- A gable.
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