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▸ 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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hammer,
gavelman,
gavelet,
landgable,
gersum,
chief rent,
rentage,
geld,
landgafol,
quitrent,
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