▸ noun: (historical) Rent. ▸ noun: (obsolete) Usury; interest on money. ▸ noun: (historical) 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. ▸ verb: (transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system. ▸ noun: 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. ▸ noun: (metonymically, chiefly US) The beginning or end of legal proceedings. ▸ noun: (metonymically, chiefly US) The legal system as a whole. ▸ noun: A mason's setting maul. ▸ verb: To use a gavel. ▸ verb: To begin or end legal proceedings ▸ noun: A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. ▸ noun: (Scotland, archaic, architecture) A gable.
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