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Word: gavel
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A wooden mallet, used by a judge in a courtroom, or a chairman of a committee, struck against a sounding block to quiet the rabble down.
- figurative The legal system as a whole.
- historical Rent.
- obsolete Usury; interest on money.
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