gavels
Meaning of gavels
noun
- Rent.
- Usury; interest on money.
- An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.
verb
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.
- (metonymically) The legal system as a whole.
- A mason's setting maul.
- To use a gavel.
The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.
noun
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
noun
A gable.
Information about gavels
- The singular form of gavels is: gavel.
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Hyphenation of gavels
gavels
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- gavels is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with gavels
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