Usually means: Hammer used in courts, auctions.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word gavel:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gavel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gavel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gavel, gavel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gavel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gavel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gavel, gavel: Wordnik
  7. gavel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gavel: Wiktionary
  9. gavel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gavel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gavel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gavel, gavel: Dictionary.com
  13. gavel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gavel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gavel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gavel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gavel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gavel: Rhymezone
  19. Gavel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gavel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gavel: Free Dictionary
  22. gavel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gavel: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. gavel: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gavel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GAVEL: Masonic Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gavel, the gavel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gaveled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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