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; also called gavelkind.
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.NounThe beginning or end of legal proceedings.
7.NounThe legal system as a whole.
8.NounA mason's setting maul.
9.VerbTo use a gavel.
10.VerbTo begin or end legal proceedings"The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession."
11.NounA small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
12.NounA gable.