What is the meaning of Gavel?

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.

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.

The beginning or end of legal proceedings.

The legal system as a whole.

A mason's setting maul.

To use a gavel.

To begin or end legal proceedings

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

A gable.

a short side of a building, an end

a gable

to be wide open (of a door or the like)

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