English-Dutch translations for gavel

• voorzittershamer
  Dan buig ik nu voor de voorzittershamer. And on that note, Mr President, I shall obey your gavel.
  Het is voor het eerst dat Oostenrijk de voorzittershamer in handen heeft. This is the first time that Austria wields the presidential gavel.
  Van mijn voorzittershamer zal ik geen gebruik maken, ik zal niet smeken en ik wil evenmin verkeerd begrepen worden. I will not bang my gavel, I will not beg and I do not want to be misunderstood.

Definition of gavel

• Rent
• An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally
• To divide or distribute according to the gavel system
• 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
• The legal system as a whole
• To use a gavel
• A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle
• A gable

Examples

• The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession

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