gavel
noun/ˈɡævl/
/ˈɡævl/
- a small hammer used by a person in charge of a meeting or an auction, or by a judge in court, in order to get people’s attentionWord Originearly 19th cent. (originally US in the sense ‘stonemason's mallet’): of unknown origin.
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