1syllable
gavels
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Definitions ofgavels
1noun
- 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.
1verb
- To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
1noun
- 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.
1verb
- To use a gavel.
Example: "The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession."
1noun
- A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
1noun
- A gable.
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