Usually means: Medieval legal trial by combat.
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  1. gavelet: Wordnik
  2. gavelet: Wiktionary
  3. Gavelet: Dictionary.com
  4. Gavelet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. gavelet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Gavelet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. gavelet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. gavelet: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Gavelet: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  (law, UK, obsolete or historical) A certain kind of writ historically used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.

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