Definitions
1.nounRent.
2.nounUsury; interest on money.
3.nounAn old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.
4.verbTo divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
5.nounA 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.
6.noun(metonymically) The legal system as a whole.
7.nounA mason's setting maul.
8.verbTo use a gavel."The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession."
9.nounA small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
10.nounA gable.