gaveln.¹

/ˈɡavəl/

Forms: Old English gæbul, geabul, gebil, gafol, gaful, gafel; northern gæfil, Middle English govel, Middle English govyl(l, gowl, gowle, Middle English, 1700s–1800s gavel.

Etymology: Old English gafol ( < Old Germanic *gaƀulo- ) is not found in the cognate tongues, but is a derivative of the common Germanic root *geƀ- (Old English giefan give v.). Latinized forms of the word, as gablum , gabulum , gavelum , gaulum , are frequent in mediæval documents in England and France, and an Old French gaule is recorded. From gabulum is derived medieval Latin gabella , French gabelle , gabelle n.

Obsolete exc. Historical.

a. Payment to a superior; tribute. Only Old English and early Middle English.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > [noun]

gavelc725

trewagec1275

rentc1300

tribute1340

port1350

scat1502

tribute-money1526

mise1535

vectigal1535

livery1577

mise-money1617

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun]

gavelc725

tacka1300

servicec1300

customc1390

servagec1400

taskc1400

homage1440

under-aid1579

reddendoa1630

workdaya1634

render1647

darg-days-

c725 Corpus Gloss. 813 Exactio, geabules monung.

a800 Erfurt Gloss. 394 Exactio, gebles monung.

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §17 Hyra ar is mæst on þæm gafole þe ða Finnas him gyldað. Þæt gafol bið on deora fellum [etc.].

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xvii. 25 Cyninges eorðo from ðæm onfoas gæfil [L. tributum] vel penning-slæht?

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3043 Þat heo to Brut-londe nolden maren senden. gold ne garsume ne gauel of þon londe.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 844 He..gouen him gouel of here lond.

b. Rent. to set to gavel: to let out for a certain payment. Old English and Historical.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun]

gavela1121

rentc1300

rental1441

gavelagec1450

rentage1633

mail duty1638

galea1687

wayleave1729

a1121 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1100 Ealle [þa biscop rices] he oððe wið feo gesealde, oððe on his agenre hand heold and to gafle gesette.

1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. ii. 94 A rent, or gavel of a penny.

1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. vii. 193 He was easily tempted to become a socager, paying rent or gavel.

†2. Interest on money lent; usury. Obsolete.In quot. c1380: misuse of goods taken in pledge.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > moneylending at interest > interest

gavela700

usure1338

usuryc1450

interess1529

interest1545

fenory1572

usance1584

use1595

advantage1600

excess1600

interest-money1618

premium1669

service1817

usage1822

vigorish1935

a700 Epinal Gloss. 115 Ære alieno, gæbuli.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxv. 27 Hyt geberede þæt þu befæstest min feoh mynyterum & ic name þænne ic come þæt min ys mid þam gafole [L. cum usura].

c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 77 After ðe hali writes, ealch miede is iteld for gauele; and þe gaueleres ne cumen neure into heueriche.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 241 For sunneis þe deofles fech þet he ȝeuet to gauele. & þe oker of pine.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 35 Hi wylleþ rekeny tuyes oþer þries þet yer uor to do arise þet gauel..and makeþ ofte of þe gauel principale dette.

c1380 R. Brunne's Handl. Synne (Dulwich MS.) 2394 It is boþe gowl & þefte.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/2 Gowle or vsury, usura fenus.

c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) v. 604 Of govele and symonye though he bere the name.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vii. iv. 279/2 It is called usura, gouel or usure in englysshe.

Compounds

Generalattributive in a number of compounds, chiefly legal terms relating to payments or services exacted from tenants. A few of these are found in Old English; others occurring in later documents were collected by Somner in his Treatise of Gavelkind 1660, whence some of them have passed into Blount, Phillips, and later dictionaries.

gavel-bread n.

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a1307 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 25 In pane ad Gavelbred.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-bred, provision of Bread or Corn reserv'd as a Rent, to be paid in kind by the Tenant.

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gavel-corn n.

gavel-dung n.

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c1300 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 22 De consuetudine extrahendi fimum debita per Custumarios tenentes..quod servitium vocatur Gaveldung.

gavel-earth n.

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c1000 Rect. Sing. Pers. (Schmid) c. 4 §2 His gafol-yrþe iii. æceras erige, and sawe of his aganum berne.

1300–1 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 17 Arabit unam dimidiam acram ad semen frumenti, & seminabit, & herciabit,..et vocatur istud opus Gavelerth.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavelerth, the Duty or Work of Ploughing so much Earth or Ground, done by the Tenant for his Lord.

gavel-gild n.

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1275 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1673) III. 155 Idem Radulphus tenet unam toftam..et non dat Gavelgeld.

1548 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 509 To the Erle of Rutland for gavill gild ij^d.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Gafold-gyld, the payment or rendring of Tribute or Custom. Also Usury.

gavel-land n.

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a1000 Laws Ælfred & Guthr. (Schmid) c. 2 Buton þam ceorle þe on gafollande sit.

1306–7 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) App. 189 Tenentes de Gavellond de octodecim Jugis, pro cariagio triginta et sex carectatas feni de prato de Redhamme.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Gafol-land, alias Gaful-land (Terra censualis), land liable to Tribute or Tax; rented Land, or Land letten for Rent.

gavel-man n.

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1206–7 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 33 Villani de Terring qui vocantur Gavelmanni.

1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. i. 3 The Tenant from whom these Services were due was called Gavelman.

gavel-mark n.

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c1300 Battle Abbey Custumals (Camden) 6 Et debet claudere v virgatas haiæ quæ vocantur gavelmerke.

gavel-mead n.

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900 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 145 Healfne æcer gauolmæde.

1282–3 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 21 Consuetudo falcandi quæ vocatur Gavelmed.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-med, the Duty or Work of mowing grass, or cutting Meadow-Land, requir'd by the Lord from his Customary Tenant.

gavel-reeve n.

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OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. ix. 10 Ecce multi puplicani et peccatores uenientes discumbebant cum iesu et discipuli[s] eius : henu monige gæfelhroefe & synnfulle cwomon & hlionadun mið hælend & leorneras his.

gavel-rip n.

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a1660 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 19 De consuetudine metendi xl. acras & dimid. de Gavel-rip in autumpno.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-rep, the Duty of Reaping at the Command of the Lord of the Manour.

gavel-sester n.

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a1660 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 24 De Gavelsester cujuslibet bracini braciati infra libertatem maneriorum, viz. unam lagenam & dimidium cervisiæ.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-sester, a Measure of Rent-Ale, one of the Articles anciently charg'd on the Stewards and Bailiffs of Manours, belonging to the Church of Canterbury.

gavel-swine n.

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1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 691 He ends this Treatise with an Enumeration of the Quit-rents formerly paid out of the Weald, as Gavel~swine, Scot-ale, Pannage.

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gavel-timber n.

gavel-wood n.

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900 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 145 iiii foðera aclofenas gauolwyda.

a1660 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 23 De xviij.s. iij.d. ob. de fine cariandi Gavelwood de consuetudine.

gavel-work n.

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c1300 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 24 Arabit unam acram..& metet unam acram..de Gavelwerk.

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gaveln.²

/ˈɡavəl/

Etymology: < Old Northern French gavel, masculine, gavelle, feminine (modern dialect gavel, gaviau), French javelle, feminine = Portuguese guavella, Spanish gavilla, Portuguese gavela, Italian gavela, feminine, medieval Latin gavellus, masculine, gavella, feminine The early Old French sense both of the masculine and the feminine noun is ‘heap’ generally; modern French has javeau mud, etc. left by an inundation. The etymology of Romance gavello, -a is obscure.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

1. A quantity of corn cut and ready to be made into a sheaf.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field > row raked for drying

gavelc1440

windrow?1523

wind-balk1532

javel1601

turning1795

roller1844

wallow1875

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1 Gavel of corne, merges.

1555 W. Waterman tr. Josephus in tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions sig. X.j He that reapeth his corne..let him leaue some of the gauelles vngathered: that the niedie maie finde, etc.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Javelle, a gauell or sheafe of corne.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gavel, Gavin, a sheaf of corn before it is tied up.

1851 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 4 Oct. (1992) IV. 116 Minot used the word 'gavel' to describe a parcel of stalks cast on the ground to dry.

2. to lie on the gavel ( †on the gavel heap): to lie unbound.The meaning ‘ground’ given in Johnson and later dictionaries rests on a misunderstanding of quot. 1707.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > lie unbound

to lie on the gavel?1611

to lie in grip1621

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 328 As fields that haue bene long time cloide With catching wether; when their corne lies on the gauill heape; Are with a constant North wind dried.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 97 Let it [Rye] lie upon the ground or gavel [printed gravel], as they call it, after it is cut 8 or 10 days.

1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 74 It [coleseed] is reaped, and left on the gavel till fit to thresh.

1799 Ann. Agric. 32 258 Wheat reaped and not bound lies on the gavel.

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gaveln.³

Brit.

/ˈɡavl/, U.S.

/ˈɡæv(ə)l/

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare gaffle n., or perhaps compare gavel , variant of gable n.¹ (see α. forms at gable n.¹; the word could perhaps have arisen from a resemblance of one end of the tool's head to the shape of the gable end of a building).

1. Chiefly Freemasonry. (a) Sometimes more fully common gavel. A type of stonemason's hammer, originally used to shape stone by breaking off the corners. Chiefly in symbolic (esp. Masonic) contexts. (b) A stylized version of this, as used by the master or warden of a Masonic lodge (and also by similar officials in other organizations, such as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows) as a symbol of authority, esp. to mark particular formal points during meetings.The exact form of the original tool has been a matter of debate, complicated by its being treated as synonymous with setting maul (cf. maul n.¹ 1a) in many early sources. Among Freemasons the gavel has been understood as symbolizing the refining of a person's character by removing vice and excess, and it and the twenty-four-inch gauge have traditionally been the symbolic tools of an apprentice mason. In modern Freemasonry the commonest form of the gavel is that of a wooden hammer with one square flat head and one pointed head.

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1760 Three Distinct Knocks 24 Ans. I was set down by the Master's Right-hand and he shew'd me the working Tools of an enter'd Apprentice. Mas. What were they? Ans. The 24 Inch Gauge, the Square and common Gavel, or setting Maul... The Square to square my Work, the 24 Inch Gauge to measure my Work, the common Gavel to knock off all superfluous Matters, whereby the Square may set easy and just.

1802 T. S. Webb Freemason's Monitor I. viii. 38 The common gavel is an instrument made use of by operative masons, to break off the corners of rough stones, the better to fit them for the builder's use.

1826 W. Morgan Illustr. Masonry 13 The Master..gives a rap with the common gavel or mallet, which calls up both Deacons.

1829 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 1 June The Grand Master laid the stone in its bed, with all the customary ceremonies of his ancient institution, which were rendered the more interesting from the fact that the gavel, or mallet, which he made use of was the same used by General Washington in laying the corner stone of the Capitol.

1875 Michigan Freemason Nov. 10 The hammer of a president, chairman, or moderator, is an instrument altogether different from the Masonic gavel.

1905 Rep. Proc. 13th Ann. Convention Internat. Railroad Master Blacksmiths' Assoc. 138 For cutting extra hard spots, a rough tool like a stone mason's gavel is used.

2014 J. Tibbott Members Only 54 The Master of a lodge uses a gavel to keep order to the proceedings.

2. Chiefly U.S. in early use. A small hammer or mallet, typically made from wood, with which a judge, chairperson, (later) auctioneer, etc., hits a surface to call for attention or order, or to confirm a decision.Some of the early gavels of this kind may have had the shape described at sense 1; they now usually have a cylindrical head. A reduced version, without a handle and often having only one circular striking surface (also called a palm gavel), is also found.

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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > hammer to command silence or order

silence1556

gavel1848

1848 N.Y. Herald 15 Aug. At first they paid no attention to him [sc. the presiding officer in the House of Representatives], but a few tremendous blows with the gavel on the table..brought them to something like order.

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxi. 380 In one hand the master of ceremonies holds elevated a little gavel, and in the other a showy gold watch, which he is making extraordinary efforts to dispose of at auction.

1895 L. F. W. Jewitt & W. H. St. J. Hope Corporation Plate II. 538 The Mayor's gavel or mallet is of ivory with fluted handle.

1903 Topeka (Kansas) State Jrnl. 27 Feb. 6/3 When the speaker's gavel fell, Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, made the point of no quorum.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xv. 495 The chairman's gavel rapped sharply.

1958 Newsweek 27 Oct. 85/1 Peter Wilson, the chairman of Sotheby's who was acting as auctioneer, climbed onto the brown birch rostrum and knocked—lightly—with his ivory palm gavel.

1998 Chartered Surveyor Monthly May 27/4 When a lot fails to reach its reserve, the notes recommend that the auctioneer announce that it has not been sold and not bring down the gavel.

2005 B. Jenkins Black Lace xvii. 338 The judge banged her gavel and called for order.

Phrases

Originally U.S. gavel-to-gavel: (from) beginning to end of an official event such as a conference or trial. Frequently as a modifier, designating media coverage of such an event in its entirety.

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1908 Atlanta Constit. 26 July b5/1 In twenty minutes, from gavel to gavel, the house had met, organized, had prayer, passed twenty-three bills,..and adjourned.

1948 Billboard 26 June (advt.) ‘Gavel to gavel’ coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions..for the listeners of Warner Brothers KFWB.

1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 67/1 We are about to start our Iraqgate hearing. This is going to be a big deal, televised gavel to gavel.

2001 M. Lauritsen in J. Drolshammer & M. Pfeifer Internationalization Pract. of Law xix. 413 The general public has become more familiar with trial procedures due to the intense media coverage and gavel-to-gavel television airing of major criminal trials.

Compounds

gavel stand n. a block, typically wooden, upon which a gavel is struck.

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1892 Times 22 June 5/3 Two needs..indispensable to our success—namely, unity and harmony. Of the one this chair and gavel-stand are the representatives.

1996 N. Abercrombie & R. Hoyst Blood of Patriots (1997) viii. 47 I said the ayes have it and banged the gavel stand.

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gaveln.⁴

/ˈɡavəl/

Etymology: < the first element of gavelkind n.

pseudo-archaic.

A partition of land among the whole tribe or sept at the death of the holder, with reference to Celtic practice.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > equal division of inherited property

hotchpot1528

gavelkind?1530

hotchpotch1602

commixtion1607

commixture1706

hodgepot1721

gavel1827

collation1828

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xviii. 702 (note) A gavel or partition was made on the death of every member of a family for three generations, after which none could be enforced.

1886 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 199 In the case of the death of the chief..or even of any one of the clansmen..the lands of all the sept were thrown into gavel and redivided.

Compounds

gavel-act n. (also gavel-law) a statute of Ireland (2 Anne) enforcing the principle of (English) gavelkind on Irish Catholics.

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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > inheritance or property

Salic law1548

agrarian1656

Falcidian law1656

deathbed1681

gavel-act1803

a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 431 The first operation of those acts..was..to take away the right of primogeniture; and..to substitute and establish a new species of statute gavelkind.]

1803 C. Butler Let. to Rom. Catholic Gentleman Ireland 13 Your estates were subject to odious gavel laws.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 536 The gavel act; which enacted that the lands of persons of that persuasion [Catholics] should descend to all the males, according to the custom of gavelkind.

1882 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. IV. 476 A repeal of the Gavel act, which breaks up the landed property of Catholics by an equal distribution among the children.

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† gavelv.¹

Etymology: < gavel n.¹

Obsolete. rare.

a. transitive. To rent (land).

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997 Cod. Dipl. (Kemble) III. 305 Ic geann ðarto twegra hida ðe Eadric gafelað.

b. intransitive. To lend money on interest.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > lend money [verb (intransitive)] > at interest

ockera1382

gavel1382

usure1530

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxviii. 44 He shal oker [v.r. gauyl] to thee, and thow shalt not oker to hym.

c. passive. (See quot. 1824.)

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1824 J. Mander Derbyshire Miners' Gloss. (at cited word) Gavelor, a duty must be first paid by every Miner before he can enter his pit or Mine, and then his men are said to be Gavelled; which is the Peak language for Freeing.

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gavelv.²

/ˈɡavəl/

Etymology: < gavel n.²: compare French javeler.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

transitive. (See quot. a1825; the statement in quot. 1611 is perhaps an error.)

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > rake into rows

gavelc1440

windrow1729

roller1831

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1 Gavelyn corne, or oþer lyke, manipulo, mergito.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iaveler, to swathe, or gauel corn; to make it into sheaues, or gauells.

16.. Song in R. Bell Collect. When it [the barley] is well sown See it is well mown Both raked and gavelled clean And a barn to lay it in.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gavel, Gavin, to collect mown corn into heaps in order to its being loaded.

1856 J. Glyde Suffolk 364 They are to be seen making hay, gavelling, dressing corn.

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gavelv.³

/ˈɡavəl/

Etymology: < gavel n.⁴ Compare disgavel v.

pseudo-archaic.

transitive. To divide or distribute (land), according to the practice of gavelkind.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > cause to descend by inheritance > divide land according to gavelkind

gavel1828

1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. vii. 206 They ‘gavelled’ the lands of Papists and made them descendible to all the children alike.

1884 M. Hickson Ireland in 17th Cent. I. Introd. 32 The poor and ignorant Irish, long accustomed to gavel and rundale the land as their fathers had done.

figurative.1828 T. Moore Irish Melodies Pref. 195 So artfully has the harmonist (if I may thus express it) gavelled the melody, distributing an equal portion of its sweetness to every part.

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gavelv.⁴

Brit.

/ˈɡavl/, U.S.

/ˈɡæv(ə)l/

Inflections: Past tense and past participle gaveled, (now chiefly U.S.) gavelled;

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: gavel n.³

Etymology: < gavel n.³

Originally and chiefly U.S.

1. transitive. To dismiss (a speaker, objection, piece of legislation, etc.) by banging a gavel; to order (a person or group) to be silent by banging a gavel. Chiefly in to gavel down.

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1862 Cincinnati Daily Commerc. 27 Feb. Dr. Scott rose to answer, but was gaveled down.

1905 Daily People (N.Y.) 10 Aug. 2/6 Dold gaveled him down, but Hogan persisted in shrieking out the word ‘credentials’.

1913 Life & Labor (Chicago) Aug. 245/2 All amendments for any real restrictions offered, were voted down in the Senate, and gavelled down in the House, by the temporary Speaker Mr. McLaughlin.

2001 CNN (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 6 Jan. Vice President Al Gore gaveled down objections to Florida's electors raised by the Congressional Black Caucus during a joint session of Congress.

2005 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 6 Oct. p11a The plaintiffs said Ore violated the First Amendment rights of Councilmen Gary Bledsoe and T.J. Edmonds by gaveling them at meetings.

2021 Tampa Bay Times (Nexis) 9 June Council Chair Ed Montanari twice gaveled down Blackmon during an exchange in which Blackmon and senior administration officials traded accusations of unprofessionalism.

a. transitive. To declare or pronounce (a person or thing) to be something specified by banging a gavel; to announce (something) by banging a gavel.

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1876 Cincinnati Commerc. 29 Apr. 6/4 The Chair gaveled the Linn street statesman out of order.

1950 Manch. Guardian 2 Sept. 7/5 The lucky couple of hundred stayed in the public gallery from three o'clock in the afternoon, when Mr. Malik gavelled the meeting open, until 8.20 when he gavelled it closed and retired from the presidency.

2021 Daily Caller (Nexis) 4 Jan. (caption) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) gavels the close of a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on a resolution.

b. transitive. To order or bring (a person, group, meeting, bill, etc.) into a specified state or condition by banging a gavel. Chiefly with into, to.

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1878 Cincinnati Commerc. 3 Sept. 2/5 The Chair then gaveled the Board to order.

1903 Carroll (Iowa) Sentinel 27 Apr. Speaker Miller ‘gaveled’ the Lindly traction bill to third reading while two-thirds of the members were shouting objections.

1951 N.Y. Times 21 July 1/2 Sponsors of amendments..barely had time to give even the sketchiest explanation of their proposals before they were gaveled into silence.

1958 Snyder (Texas) Daily News 10 Sept. 1/2 The violent outburst of resentment came after the convention had been hastily gavelled to an end, shutting off the possibility of further debate.

1959 Time 23 Feb. 20/1 ‘The faces will be different,’ said Arkansas' John McClellan as he gaveled his Senate labor-racketeering committee into session.

1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 22 Mar. 28/3 Judge Bradley gavels his courtroom to order this week.

2000 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) 7 Aug. a1 The chairman tried to gavel them quiet.

2005 Richmond (Va.) Times Disp. (Nexis) 15 Apr. (City ed.) b1 Loupassi gaveled the meeting to order at 6:06 p.m.

c. transitive. to gavel through: to pass (legislation, a bill, etc.).

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1901 Chicago Eagle 26 Oct. 4/3 A committee of pensioners who would come back with a report in the shape of a list of club officers and these would be gaveled through.

1999 N.Y. Times 10 Mar. a17/1 The Lieutenant Governor broke the law by gaveling through new Senate rules to increase his power.

3. intransitive. To bang a gavel.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (transitive)] > use small hammer, gavel, etc.

gavel1904

1904 J. McC. Davis Breaking the Deadlock ii. xiv. 314 Chairman Cannon gaveled for order.

1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xxv. 313 And at once Oberwaltzer gaveling for order and ordering the arrest of the offender.

1986 ‘J. Gash’ Tartan Ringers xxviii. 189 Trembler gavelled, and we were off.

2020 USNEWS.com (Nexis) 27 Mar. The presiding officer gaveled for order.

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释义	gaveln.¹ /ˈɡavəl/ Forms: Old English gæbul, geabul, gebil, gafol, gaful, gafel; northern gæfil, Middle English govel, Middle English govyl(l, gowl, gowle, Middle English, 1700s–1800s gavel. Etymology: Old English gafol ( < Old Germanic gaƀulo- ) is not found in the cognate tongues, but is a derivative of the common Germanic root geƀ- (Old English giefan give v.). Latinized forms of the word, as gablum , gabulum , gavelum , gaulum , are frequent in mediæval documents in England and France, and an Old French gaule is recorded. From gabulum is derived medieval Latin gabella , French gabelle , gabelle n. Obsolete exc. Historical. 1. a. Payment to a superior; tribute. Only Old English and early Middle English. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tribute > [noun] gavelc725 trewagec1275 rentc1300 tribute1340 port1350 scat1502 tribute-money1526 mise1535 vectigal1535 livery1577 mise-money1617 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] gavelc725 tacka1300 servicec1300 customc1390 servagec1400 taskc1400 homage1440 under-aid1579 reddendoa1630 workdaya1634 render1647 darg-days- c725 Corpus Gloss. 813 Exactio, geabules monung. a800 Erfurt Gloss. 394 Exactio, gebles monung. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §17 Hyra ar is mæst on þæm gafole þe ða Finnas him gyldað. Þæt gafol bið on deora fellum [etc.]. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xvii. 25 Cyninges eorðo from ðæm onfoas gæfil [L. tributum] vel penning-slæht? c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3043 Þat heo to Brut-londe nolden maren senden. gold ne garsume ne gauel of þon londe. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 844 He..gouen him gouel of here lond. b. Rent. to set to gavel: to let out for a certain payment. Old English and Historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] gavela1121 rentc1300 rental1441 gavelagec1450 rentage1633 mail duty1638 galea1687 wayleave1729 a1121 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1100 Ealle [þa biscop rices] he oððe wið feo gesealde, oððe on his agenre hand heold and to gafle gesette. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. ii. 94 A rent, or gavel of a penny. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. vii. 193 He was easily tempted to become a socager, paying rent or gavel. †2. Interest on money lent; usury. Obsolete.In quot. c1380: misuse of goods taken in pledge. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > moneylending at interest > interest gavela700 usure1338 usuryc1450 interess1529 interest1545 fenory1572 usance1584 use1595 advantage1600 excess1600 interest-money1618 premium1669 service1817 usage1822 vigorish1935 a700 Epinal Gloss. 115 Ære alieno, gæbuli. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxv. 27 Hyt geberede þæt þu befæstest min feoh mynyterum & ic name þænne ic come þæt min ys mid þam gafole [L. cum usura]. c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 77 After ðe hali writes, ealch miede is iteld for gauele; and þe gaueleres ne cumen neure into heueriche. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 241 For sunneis þe deofles fech þet he ȝeuet to gauele. & þe oker of pine. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 35 Hi wylleþ rekeny tuyes oþer þries þet yer uor to do arise þet gauel..and makeþ ofte of þe gauel principale dette. c1380 R. Brunne's Handl. Synne (Dulwich MS.) 2394 It is boþe gowl & þefte. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/2 Gowle or vsury, usura fenus. c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) v. 604 Of govele and symonye though he bere the name. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vii. iv. 279/2 It is called usura, gouel or usure in englysshe. Compounds Generalattributive in a number of compounds, chiefly legal terms relating to payments or services exacted from tenants. A few of these are found in Old English; others occurring in later documents were collected by Somner in his Treatise of Gavelkind 1660, whence some of them have passed into Blount, Phillips, and later dictionaries. gavel-bread n. ΚΠ a1307 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 25 In pane ad Gavelbred. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-bred, provision of Bread or Corn reserv'd as a Rent, to be paid in kind by the Tenant. Categories » gavel-corn n. gavel-dung n. ΚΠ c1300 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 22 De consuetudine extrahendi fimum debita per Custumarios tenentes..quod servitium vocatur Gaveldung. gavel-earth n. ΚΠ c1000 Rect. Sing. Pers. (Schmid) c. 4 §2 His gafol-yrþe iii. æceras erige, and sawe of his aganum berne. 1300–1 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 17 Arabit unam dimidiam acram ad semen frumenti, & seminabit, & herciabit,..et vocatur istud opus Gavelerth. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavelerth, the Duty or Work of Ploughing so much Earth or Ground, done by the Tenant for his Lord. gavel-gild n. ΚΠ 1275 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1673) III. 155 Idem Radulphus tenet unam toftam..et non dat Gavelgeld. 1548 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 509 To the Erle of Rutland for gavill gild ij^d. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Gafold-gyld, the payment or rendring of Tribute or Custom. Also Usury. gavel-land n. ΚΠ a1000 Laws Ælfred & Guthr. (Schmid) c. 2 Buton þam ceorle þe on gafollande sit. 1306–7 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) App. 189 Tenentes de Gavellond de octodecim Jugis, pro cariagio triginta et sex carectatas feni de prato de Redhamme. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Gafol-land, alias Gaful-land (Terra censualis), land liable to Tribute or Tax; rented Land, or Land letten for Rent. gavel-man n. ΚΠ 1206–7 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 33 Villani de Terring qui vocantur Gavelmanni. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. i. 3 The Tenant from whom these Services were due was called Gavelman. gavel-mark n. ΚΠ c1300 Battle Abbey Custumals (Camden) 6 Et debet claudere v virgatas haiæ quæ vocantur gavelmerke. gavel-mead n. ΚΠ 900 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 145 Healfne æcer gauolmæde. 1282–3 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 21 Consuetudo falcandi quæ vocatur Gavelmed. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-med, the Duty or Work of mowing grass, or cutting Meadow-Land, requir'd by the Lord from his Customary Tenant. gavel-reeve n. ΚΠ OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. ix. 10 Ecce multi puplicani et peccatores uenientes discumbebant cum iesu et discipuli[s] eius : henu monige gæfelhroefe & synnfulle cwomon & hlionadun mið hælend & leorneras his. gavel-rip n. ΚΠ a1660 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 19 De consuetudine metendi xl. acras & dimid. de Gavel-rip in autumpno. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-rep, the Duty of Reaping at the Command of the Lord of the Manour. gavel-sester n. ΚΠ a1660 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 24 De Gavelsester cujuslibet bracini braciati infra libertatem maneriorum, viz. unam lagenam & dimidium cervisiæ. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gavel-sester, a Measure of Rent-Ale, one of the Articles anciently charg'd on the Stewards and Bailiffs of Manours, belonging to the Church of Canterbury. gavel-swine n. ΚΠ 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 691 He ends this Treatise with an Enumeration of the Quit-rents formerly paid out of the Weald, as Gavel~swine, Scot-ale, Pannage. Categories » gavel-timber n. gavel-wood n. ΚΠ 900 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 145 iiii foðera aclofenas gauolwyda. a1660 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 23 De xviij.s. iij.d. ob. de fine cariandi Gavelwood de consuetudine. gavel-work n. ΚΠ c1300 in W. Somner Treat. Gavelkind (1660) 24 Arabit unam acram..& metet unam acram..de Gavelwerk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). gaveln.² /ˈɡavəl/ Etymology: < Old Northern French gavel, masculine, gavelle, feminine (modern dialect gavel, gaviau), French javelle, feminine = Portuguese guavella, Spanish gavilla, Portuguese gavela, Italian gavela, feminine, medieval Latin gavellus, masculine, gavella, feminine The early Old French sense both of the masculine and the feminine noun is ‘heap’ generally; modern French has javeau mud, etc. left by an inundation. The etymology of Romance gavello, -a is obscure. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. A quantity of corn cut and ready to be made into a sheaf. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field > row raked for drying gavelc1440 windrow?1523 wind-balk1532 javel1601 turning1795 roller1844 wallow1875 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1 Gavel of corne, merges. 1555 W. Waterman tr. Josephus in tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions sig. X.j He that reapeth his corne..let him leaue some of the gauelles vngathered: that the niedie maie finde, etc. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Javelle, a gauell or sheafe of corne. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gavel, Gavin, a sheaf of corn before it is tied up. 1851 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 4 Oct. (1992) IV. 116 Minot used the word 'gavel' to describe a parcel of stalks cast on the ground to dry. 2. to lie on the gavel ( †on the gavel heap): to lie unbound.The meaning ‘ground’ given in Johnson and later dictionaries rests on a misunderstanding of quot. 1707. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > lie unbound to lie on the gavel?1611 to lie in grip1621 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 328 As fields that haue bene long time cloide With catching wether; when their corne lies on the gauill heape; Are with a constant North wind dried. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 97 Let it [Rye] lie upon the ground or gavel [printed gravel], as they call it, after it is cut 8 or 10 days. 1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 74 It [coleseed] is reaped, and left on the gavel till fit to thresh. 1799 Ann. Agric. 32 258 Wheat reaped and not bound lies on the gavel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). gaveln.³ Brit. /ˈɡavl/, U.S. /ˈɡæv(ə)l/ Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare gaffle n., or perhaps compare gavel , variant of gable n.¹ (see α. forms at gable n.¹; the word could perhaps have arisen from a resemblance of one end of the tool's head to the shape of the gable end of a building). 1. Chiefly Freemasonry. (a) Sometimes more fully common gavel. A type of stonemason's hammer, originally used to shape stone by breaking off the corners. Chiefly in symbolic (esp. Masonic) contexts. (b) A stylized version of this, as used by the master or warden of a Masonic lodge (and also by similar officials in other organizations, such as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows) as a symbol of authority, esp. to mark particular formal points during meetings.The exact form of the original tool has been a matter of debate, complicated by its being treated as synonymous with setting maul (cf. maul n.¹ 1a) in many early sources. Among Freemasons the gavel has been understood as symbolizing the refining of a person's character by removing vice and excess, and it and the twenty-four-inch gauge have traditionally been the symbolic tools of an apprentice mason. In modern Freemasonry the commonest form of the gavel is that of a wooden hammer with one square flat head and one pointed head. ΚΠ 1760 Three Distinct Knocks 24 Ans. I was set down by the Master's Right-hand and he shew'd me the working Tools of an enter'd Apprentice. Mas. What were they? Ans. The 24 Inch Gauge, the Square and common Gavel, or setting Maul... The Square to square my Work, the 24 Inch Gauge to measure my Work, the common Gavel to knock off all superfluous Matters, whereby the Square may set easy and just. 1802 T. S. Webb Freemason's Monitor I. viii. 38 The common gavel is an instrument made use of by operative masons, to break off the corners of rough stones, the better to fit them for the builder's use. 1826 W. Morgan Illustr. Masonry 13 The Master..gives a rap with the common gavel or mallet, which calls up both Deacons. 1829 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 1 June The Grand Master laid the stone in its bed, with all the customary ceremonies of his ancient institution, which were rendered the more interesting from the fact that the gavel, or mallet, which he made use of was the same used by General Washington in laying the corner stone of the Capitol. 1875 Michigan Freemason Nov. 10 The hammer of a president, chairman, or moderator, is an instrument altogether different from the Masonic gavel. 1905 Rep. Proc. 13th Ann. Convention Internat. Railroad Master Blacksmiths' Assoc. 138 For cutting extra hard spots, a rough tool like a stone mason's gavel is used. 2014 J. Tibbott Members Only 54 The Master of a lodge uses a gavel to keep order to the proceedings. 2. Chiefly U.S. in early use. A small hammer or mallet, typically made from wood, with which a judge, chairperson, (later) auctioneer, etc., hits a surface to call for attention or order, or to confirm a decision.Some of the early gavels of this kind may have had the shape described at sense 1; they now usually have a cylindrical head. A reduced version, without a handle and often having only one circular striking surface (also called a palm gavel), is also found. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > hammer to command silence or order silence1556 gavel1848 1848 N.Y. Herald 15 Aug. At first they paid no attention to him [sc. the presiding officer in the House of Representatives], but a few tremendous blows with the gavel on the table..brought them to something like order. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xxi. 380 In one hand the master of ceremonies holds elevated a little gavel, and in the other a showy gold watch, which he is making extraordinary efforts to dispose of at auction. 1895 L. F. W. Jewitt & W. H. St. J. Hope Corporation Plate II. 538 The Mayor's gavel or mallet is of ivory with fluted handle. 1903 Topeka (Kansas) State Jrnl. 27 Feb. 6/3 When the speaker's gavel fell, Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, made the point of no quorum. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xv. 495 The chairman's gavel rapped sharply. 1958 Newsweek 27 Oct. 85/1 Peter Wilson, the chairman of Sotheby's who was acting as auctioneer, climbed onto the brown birch rostrum and knocked—lightly—with his ivory palm gavel. 1998 Chartered Surveyor Monthly May 27/4 When a lot fails to reach its reserve, the notes recommend that the auctioneer announce that it has not been sold and not bring down the gavel. 2005 B. Jenkins Black Lace xvii. 338 The judge banged her gavel and called for order. Phrases Originally U.S. gavel-to-gavel: (from) beginning to end of an official event such as a conference or trial. Frequently as a modifier, designating media coverage of such an event in its entirety. ΚΠ 1908 Atlanta Constit. 26 July b5/1 In twenty minutes, from gavel to gavel, the house had met, organized, had prayer, passed twenty-three bills,..and adjourned. 1948 Billboard 26 June (advt.) ‘Gavel to gavel’ coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions..for the listeners of Warner Brothers KFWB. 1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 67/1 We are about to start our Iraqgate hearing. This is going to be a big deal, televised gavel to gavel. 2001 M. Lauritsen in J. Drolshammer & M. Pfeifer Internationalization Pract. of Law xix. 413 The general public has become more familiar with trial procedures due to the intense media coverage and gavel-to-gavel television airing of major criminal trials. Compounds gavel stand n. a block, typically wooden, upon which a gavel is struck. ΚΠ 1892 Times 22 June 5/3 Two needs..indispensable to our success—namely, unity and harmony. Of the one this chair and gavel-stand are the representatives. 1996 N. Abercrombie & R. Hoyst Blood of Patriots (1997) viii. 47 I said the ayes have it and banged the gavel stand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). gaveln.⁴ /ˈɡavəl/ Etymology: < the first element of gavelkind n. pseudo-archaic. A partition of land among the whole tribe or sept at the death of the holder, with reference to Celtic practice. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > equal division of inherited property hotchpot1528 gavelkind?1530 hotchpotch1602 commixtion1607 commixture1706 hodgepot1721 gavel1827 collation1828 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xviii. 702 (note) A gavel or partition was made on the death of every member of a family for three generations, after which none could be enforced. 1886 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 199 In the case of the death of the chief..or even of any one of the clansmen..the lands of all the sept were thrown into gavel and redivided. Compounds gavel-act n. (also gavel-law) a statute of Ireland (2 Anne) enforcing the principle of (English) gavelkind on Irish Catholics. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > inheritance or property Salic law1548 agrarian1656 Falcidian law1656 deathbed1681 gavel-act1803 a1797 E. Burke Tracts Popery Laws in Wks. (1842) II. 431 The first operation of those acts..was..to take away the right of primogeniture; and..to substitute and establish a new species of statute gavelkind.] 1803 C. Butler Let. to Rom. Catholic Gentleman Ireland 13 Your estates were subject to odious gavel laws. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 536 The gavel act; which enacted that the lands of persons of that persuasion [Catholics] should descend to all the males, according to the custom of gavelkind. 1882 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. IV. 476 A repeal of the Gavel act, which breaks up the landed property of Catholics by an equal distribution among the children. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † gavelv.¹ Etymology: < gavel n.¹ Obsolete. rare. a. transitive. To rent (land). ΚΠ 997 Cod. Dipl. (Kemble) III. 305 Ic geann ðarto twegra hida ðe Eadric gafelað. b. intransitive. To lend money on interest. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > lend money [verb (intransitive)] > at interest ockera1382 gavel1382 usure1530 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxviii. 44 He shal oker [v.r. gauyl] to thee, and thow shalt not oker to hym. c. passive. (See quot. 1824.) ΚΠ 1824 J. Mander Derbyshire Miners' Gloss. (at cited word) Gavelor, a duty must be first paid by every Miner before he can enter his pit or Mine, and then his men are said to be Gavelled; which is the Peak language for Freeing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). gavelv.² /ˈɡavəl/ Etymology: < gavel n.²: compare French javeler. Obsolete exc. dialect. transitive. (See quot. a1825; the statement in quot. 1611 is perhaps an error.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > rake into rows gavelc1440 windrow1729 roller1831 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1 Gavelyn corne, or oþer lyke, manipulo, mergito. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iaveler, to swathe, or gauel corn; to make it into sheaues, or gauells. 16.. Song in R. Bell Collect. When it [the barley] is well sown See it is well mown Both raked and gavelled clean And a barn to lay it in. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gavel, Gavin, to collect mown corn into heaps in order to its being loaded. 1856 J. Glyde Suffolk 364 They are to be seen making hay, gavelling, dressing corn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). gavelv.³ /ˈɡavəl/ Etymology: < gavel n.⁴ Compare disgavel v. pseudo-archaic. transitive. To divide or distribute (land), according to the practice of gavelkind. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > cause to descend by inheritance > divide land according to gavelkind gavel1828 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. vii. 206 They ‘gavelled’ the lands of Papists and made them descendible to all the children alike. 1884 M. Hickson Ireland in 17th Cent. I. Introd. 32 The poor and ignorant Irish, long accustomed to gavel and rundale the land as their fathers had done. figurative.1828 T. Moore Irish Melodies Pref. 195 So artfully has the harmonist (if I may thus express it) gavelled the melody, distributing an equal portion of its sweetness to every part. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gavelv.⁴ Brit. /ˈɡavl/, U.S. /ˈɡæv(ə)l/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle gaveled, (now chiefly U.S.) gavelled; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: gavel n.³ Etymology: < gavel n.³ Originally and chiefly U.S. 1. transitive. To dismiss (a speaker, objection, piece of legislation, etc.) by banging a gavel; to order (a person or group) to be silent by banging a gavel. Chiefly in to gavel down. ΚΠ 1862 Cincinnati Daily Commerc. 27 Feb. Dr. Scott rose to answer, but was gaveled down. 1905 Daily People (N.Y.) 10 Aug. 2/6 Dold gaveled him down, but Hogan persisted in shrieking out the word ‘credentials’. 1913 Life & Labor (Chicago) Aug. 245/2 All amendments for any real restrictions offered, were voted down in the Senate, and gavelled down in the House, by the temporary Speaker Mr. McLaughlin. 2001 CNN (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 6 Jan. Vice President Al Gore gaveled down objections to Florida's electors raised by the Congressional Black Caucus during a joint session of Congress. 2005 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 6 Oct. p11a The plaintiffs said Ore violated the First Amendment rights of Councilmen Gary Bledsoe and T.J. Edmonds by gaveling them at meetings. 2021 Tampa Bay Times (Nexis) 9 June Council Chair Ed Montanari twice gaveled down Blackmon during an exchange in which Blackmon and senior administration officials traded accusations of unprofessionalism. 2. a. transitive. To declare or pronounce (a person or thing) to be something specified by banging a gavel; to announce (something) by banging a gavel. ΚΠ 1876 Cincinnati Commerc. 29 Apr. 6/4 The Chair gaveled the Linn street statesman out of order. 1950 Manch. Guardian 2 Sept. 7/5 The lucky couple of hundred stayed in the public gallery from three o'clock in the afternoon, when Mr. Malik gavelled the meeting open, until 8.20 when he gavelled it closed and retired from the presidency. 2021 Daily Caller (Nexis) 4 Jan. (caption) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) gavels the close of a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on a resolution. b. transitive. To order or bring (a person, group, meeting, bill, etc.) into a specified state or condition by banging a gavel. Chiefly with into, to. ΚΠ 1878 Cincinnati Commerc. 3 Sept. 2/5 The Chair then gaveled the Board to order. 1903 Carroll (Iowa) Sentinel 27 Apr. Speaker Miller ‘gaveled’ the Lindly traction bill to third reading while two-thirds of the members were shouting objections. 1951 N.Y. Times 21 July 1/2 Sponsors of amendments..barely had time to give even the sketchiest explanation of their proposals before they were gaveled into silence. 1958 Snyder (Texas) Daily News 10 Sept. 1/2 The violent outburst of resentment came after the convention had been hastily gavelled to an end, shutting off the possibility of further debate. 1959 Time 23 Feb. 20/1 ‘The faces will be different,’ said Arkansas' John McClellan as he gaveled his Senate labor-racketeering committee into session. 1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 22 Mar. 28/3 Judge Bradley gavels his courtroom to order this week. 2000 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) 7 Aug. a1 The chairman tried to gavel them quiet. 2005 Richmond (Va.) Times Disp. (Nexis) 15 Apr. (City ed.) b1 Loupassi gaveled the meeting to order at 6:06 p.m. c. transitive. to gavel through: to pass (legislation, a bill, etc.). ΚΠ 1901 Chicago Eagle 26 Oct. 4/3 A committee of pensioners who would come back with a report in the shape of a list of club officers and these would be gaveled through. 1999 N.Y. Times 10 Mar. a17/1 The Lieutenant Governor broke the law by gaveling through new Senate rules to increase his power. 3. intransitive. To bang a gavel. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (transitive)] > use small hammer, gavel, etc. gavel1904 1904 J. McC. Davis Breaking the Deadlock ii. xiv. 314 Chairman Cannon gaveled for order. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xxv. 313 And at once Oberwaltzer gaveling for order and ordering the arrest of the offender. 1986 ‘J. Gash’ Tartan Ringers xxviii. 189 Trembler gavelled, and we were off. 2020 USNEWS.com (Nexis) 27 Mar. The presiding officer gaveled for order. 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