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Gavel   Listen
noun
Gavel  n.  
1.
The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
2.
A mason's setting maul.





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"Gavel" Quotes from Famous Books



... do; for as soon as they entered the room and caught sight of Glaubmann, who by this time was fairly cowering in his chair, they immediately began a concerted tirade that was only ended when Goldstein banged vigorously on the library table, using as a gavel one of Feldman's ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... rostrum, accompanied by Susan Walton and Selah Adams. The women took their places in two empty chairs among those at the back; the Judge approached the table in the middle of the rostrum, stood for a moment, a tall and elegant figure, looking out over the sea of faces below him. Then, lifting the gavel, he rapped ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... it for fame; Till his relish, grown callous almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind. Ye Kenricks, ye Kellys, and Woodfalls so grave, What a commerce was yours, while you got and you gavel How did Grub Street re-echo the shouts that you raised, While he was be-Rosciused and you were be-praised! But peace to his spirit, wherever it flies, To act as an angel and mix with the skies; Those poets who owe their ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... his gavel vigorously)—"It is moved and seconded that the House do now adjourn. All those ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 5. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner


Words linked to "Gavel" :   mallet


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