GAVEL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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)

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