different between gavel vs favel

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a.v?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??æ.v?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gavel, from Old English gafol, from Proto-Germanic *gabul?, from Proto-Germanic *geban? (“to give”), equivalent to give +? -el.

Noun

gavel (countable and uncountable, plural gavels)

1. (historical) Rent.
2. (obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
3. (historical) 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.

Verb

gavel (third-person singular simple present gavels, present participle gaveling or gavelling, simple past and past participle gaveled or gavelled)

1. (transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Perhaps alteration of cavel (“a stone mason's hammer”). More at cavel. Has also been linked to an Old Norse origin.

Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

1. 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.
2. (metonymically, chiefly US) The legal system as a whole.
3. A mason's setting maul.

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Translations

Verb

gavel (third-person singular simple present gavels, present participle gaveling or gavelling, simple past and past participle gaveled or gavelled)

1. To use a gavel.

Usage notes

• In US English, the participles are gaveled and gaveling; in British English they are gavelled and gavelling.

Translations

Etymology 3

Old French gavelle, French javelle, probably diminutive from Latin capulus (“handle”), from capere (“to lay hold of, seize”); or compare Welsh gafael (“hold, grasp”). Compare heave.

Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

1. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

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Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

gavel (plural gavels)

1. (Scotland, architecture) A gable.

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Anagrams

• glave

Swedish

Noun

gavel c

1. a gable, a short wall of a building

Declension

Related terms

• husgavel

English

Etymology 1

From Old French favele, from Latin fabella (“short fable”), diminutive of fabula. See fable.

Noun

favel

1. (obsolete) flattery; cajolery; deceit(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Etymology 2

Old French fauvel, favel, diminutive of Old French fauve; of German oigin. See fallow (adjective).

Adjective

favel (comparative more favel, superlative most favel)

1. yellow or dun in colour

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Noun

favel (plural favels)

1. A horse of a favel or dun colour.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French favel. Uses after the 14th century are based on William Langland's The vision of Piers Plowman.

Noun

favel (uncountable)

1. flattery; duplicity

References

• “f?v??l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.