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You can make 33 words from gavel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of gavel

gavel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.vəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæ.vəl/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gavel, from Old English gafol, from Proto-West Germanic *gabul, from Proto-Germanic *gabulą, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”), equivalent to give +‎ -el.

Noun

gavel (countable and uncountable, plural gavels)

1. (historical) Rent.
2. (obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
3. (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

gavel (third-person singular simple present gavels, present participle gaveling or gavelling, simple past and past participle gaveled or gavelled)

1. (transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Possibly an alteration of dialectal cavel, a variant of kevel (“a stone mason's axe with a flat face, a cleat or bollard”), from Middle English kevel (“a mason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli (“a piece of wood, stick, cylinder, mangle”). Cognate with Norwegian kjevle (“rolling pin”).

Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

1. 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.
2. (metonymically, chiefly US) The legal system as a whole.
3. A mason's setting maul.

Derived terms

• gavel-to-gavel

Translations

Verb

gavel (third-person singular simple present gavels, present participle gaveling or gavelling, simple past and past participle gaveled or gavelled)

1. To use a gavel.

Usage notes

• In US English, the participles are gaveled and gaveling; in British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English they are gavelled and gavelling.

Derived terms

• gavel out
• gavel to order

Translations

Etymology 3

Old French gavelle (cf. Modern French javelle) probably diminutive from Latin capulus (“handle”), from capere (“to lay hold of, seize”); or compare Welsh gafael (“hold, grasp”). Compare heave.

Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

1. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

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Etymology 4

Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

1. (Scotland, archaic, architecture) A gable.

References

Anagrams

• glave

Swedish

Noun

gavel c

1. (architecture) a gable, a short wall of a building
2. (idiomatic, in "stå på vid gavel") to be wide open (of a door or the like)

   Synonym: (adjective) vidöppen

Declension

Related terms

• husgavel

References

• gavel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gavel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gavel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)