Associations to the word «Gavel»
Noun
- Courtroom
- Mallet
- Fell
- Cassius
- Pounding
- Aba
- Podium
- Rap
- Novak
- Bang
- Demon
- Judge
- Recess
- Coverage
- Chairman
- Auction
- Tapping
- Bar
- Purification
- Speaker
- Blaster
- Hearing
- Stu
- Once
- Lazarus
- Microphone
- Butt
- Pot
- Crack
- Silver
- Ira
- Senate
- Jury
- Gauge
- Anton
- Prof
- Journalism
- Pound
- Session
- Emmy
- Bench
- Meeting
- Dodge
- Beck
- Chamber
- Proceeding
- Lodge
- Span
- Convention
- Handle
- Table
- Desk
- Johns
- Pike
- Objection
- Silence
- Hammer
- Association
- Forehead
- Reporting
- Chair
- Award
- Down
- Order
- Burst
- Blake
- Senator
- Shout
- Blow
- Mason
- Membership
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Wiktionary
GAVEL, noun. (historical) Rent.
GAVEL, noun. (obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
GAVEL, noun. A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge (not UK), 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.
GAVEL, noun. (figuratively) The legal system as a whole (not UK).
GAVEL, noun. A mason's setting maul.
GAVEL, verb. To use a gavel.
GAVEL, noun. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
GAVEL, noun. A gable.
GAVEL TO ORDER, verb. (transitive) To initiate or restore the orderly functioning of a meeting or function or assembly or court by pounding a gavel.
Dictionary definition
GAVEL, noun. A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.