Gabble vs Gavel - What's the difference?
gabble | gavel |
To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
* 1900 , , The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , ch. 4:
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
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.
As verbs the difference between gabble and gavel
is that gabble is to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning while gavel is to use a gavel.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.gabble
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish
- Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
- Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
- gabbling fowls
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (l)Synonyms
* See also English reporting verbsgavel
English
(wikipedia gavel)Etymology 1
(etyl) gafol.Etymology 2
Origin obscure. Perhaps alteration of . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)