Gavel vs Avel - What's the difference?
gavel | avel |
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
(figuratively) The legal system as a whole.
A mason's setting maul.
To use a gavel.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between gavel and avel
is that gavel is (obsolete) usury; interest on money while avel is (obsolete) to pull away.As verbs the difference between gavel and avel
is that gavel is to use a gavel while avel is (obsolete) to pull away.As a noun gavel
is (historical) rent or gavel can be a wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction or gavel can be a small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle or gavel can be a gable.gavel
English
(wikipedia gavel)Etymology 1
(etyl) gafol.Etymology 2
Origin obscure. Perhaps alteration of . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)