The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
Rent.
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
The legal system as a whole.
A mason's setting maul.
An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
To use a gavel.
To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.