English
gavel
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈɡa.vəl/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈɡæ.vəl/
Noun

gavel

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

gavel (gavels, present participle gaveling; past and past participle gaveled)

  1. (transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

  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, chiefly, US) The legal system as a whole.
  3. A mason's setting maul.
Translations
  • French: marteau
  • German: Hammer; Richterhammer (judge); Auktionshammer (auctioneer)
  • Russian: деревя́нный
  • Spanish: mazo, martillo
Verb

gavel (gavels, present participle gaveling; past and past participle gaveled)

  1. To use a gavel.
    The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.
Translations
  • Spanish: dar mazazos, dar martillazos
Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

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

gavel (plural gavels)

  1. (Scotland, architecture) A gable.


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