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GAVEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gavel" is a kind of...):
beetle; mallet (a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing)
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