2. Verb. Third person singular simple present of ''to gavel.'' ¹
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Definition of Gavels
1. gavel [v] - See also: gavel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gavels
Literary usage of Gavels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1867)
"The gavels are badly scattered in front of the platform ; the gavel does not all
... gavels laid straight and compact; no scattering; the swath between the ..."
2. The American Wheat Culturist: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of Wheat by Sereno Edwards Todd (1868)
"There is an awkward and laborious way to rake gavels; and there is a neat and
... When making gavels of grain that is cut by a reaper, if the straw be of a ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"They either deliver the grain to one side in gavels ... or elevate the gavels
upon a platform where two operators bind them into sheaves by hand. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... which the cut grain falls as it is cut, that it shall vibrate over the same
at suitable intervals to discharge the cut grain in gavels upon the ground. ..."
5. The Mediæval History of Denbighshire: The Records of Denbigh and Its by John Williams (1860)
"And twenty-one gavels, and the sixth part of a gavel, in the said three townships,
... Three other (Welsh) tenants hold portions of two other gavels. ..."
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