gavel
ga vuhl
- n a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
- Under the auctioneer's gavel last week went famed 101 Ranch, bringing sorrow to the hearts of many a cowboy, cowgirl, Indian chief squaw, including onetime Cowboys Will .
- The Speaker's gavel pounded the desk.
- The minute America's best-known jurist bangs his gavel, onlookers in the nation's most famous courtroom attentively come to order.