gavel

1. 1.

   a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge

   Broadermallet

Other forms of gavel

plural

gavels·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gavel

What does gavel mean?

gavel means "a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge".

How many syllables are in gavel?

gavel has 2 syllables: gav-el. The stress falls on "gav". In IPA it is /ˈɡævəl/.

Is gavel a common word?

gavel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.