gavel

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.

Verb

1. To use a gavel.
2. To begin or end legal proceedings

Concepts

marteau

marteau de président

Synonymes

mallet

hammer

🔨

maul

beetle

🪲

mall

knob

idiot

clod

bludgeon

moron

poop

💩

sap

shillalah

shillelagh

sledge

cudgel

gombeen

club

Traductions

martillo

🔨

Hammer

🔨

mazo

🔨

voorzittershamer

malho

dar martillazos

tokmak

dar mazazos

τοκογλυφία

strozzinaggio

martelletto

🔨

mîrkut

zomp

hamer

🔨

woekerwinst

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɡa.vəl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: gavel

Hérité de ancien anglais: gafol

Hérité de moyen anglais: kevel

Appartenant à norvégien: kjevle

Appartenant à français: javelle

Appartenant à latin: capulus

Appartenant à gallois: gafael

In summary

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.