GAVEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gavel mean? 

• GAVEL (noun)
  The noun GAVEL has 1 sense:

1. a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge

  Familiarity information: GAVEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gavel" is a kind of...):

beetle; mallet (a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing)