different between gavel vs gabel

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

From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?b?l/

Noun

gabel (plural gabels)

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

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   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.

Anagrams

• Gable, Gebal, bagel, gable, galbe, gleba

Albanian

Etymology

From gabë (“lie, deception”) +? -el (suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a?b?l]

Noun

gabel m (indefinite plural gabelë, definite singular gabeli, definite plural gabelët)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) a Gypsy, Roma

Declension

Synonyms

• rom
• magjup
• arixhi
• jevg
• evgjit

References

Cimbrian

Noun

gàbel

1. plural of gabala
2. dative singular of gabala

German

Verb

gabel

1. inflection of gabeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German gabel, gabele, from Old High German gabala, from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”). Cognate with German Gabel.

Noun

gabel f

1. fork

References

• “gabel” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy., p. 29