gavels

The word “gavels” has 2 syllables: gav-els

It's pronounced as /ˈɡævəlz/


What is synonym and antonym for gavels?

In the thesaurus, “gavels” has 38 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for gavels along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for gavels

  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • beetles
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • canes
  • clubs
  • crabsticks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • hammers
  • hickories
  • knobkerries
  • maces
  • mallets
  • mauls
  • nightsticks
  • rattans
  • rods
  • rungs
  • saps
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • sledgehammers
  • staffs
  • staves
  • switches
  • truncheons
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • whangees

Meanings of gavels

  • noun
    1. Rent.
    2. Usury; interest on money.
    3. An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.
    4. 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.
    5. (metonymically) The legal system as a whole.
    6. A mason's setting maul.
    7. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
    8. A gable.
  • verb
    1. To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
    2. To use a gavel.

Example Sentences

  • The gavels of all the judges were heard as the verdicts were announced.
  • The speaker handed out ceremonial gavels to the new board members.
  • She collected antique gavels as part of her historical artifact collection.
  • The gavels of the leaders signaled the start of the international conference.
  • The auctioneer used multiple gavels throughout the event to keep things organized.

On this page you'll find 38 synonyms or another words to gavels, such as: bastinades, bastinadoes, batons, bats, beetles, billies, billy clubs.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

waddies

  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • beetles
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • buckaroos
  • buckeroos
  • caballeros
  • canes
  • cattlemen
  • clubs
  • cowboys
  • cowgirls
  • cowhands
  • cowherds
  • cowmen
  • cowpokes
  • cowpunchers
  • crabsticks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • drovers
  • gauchos
  • gavels
  • hammers
  • herders
  • herdsmen
  • hickories
  • horsemen
  • horsewomen
  • knobkerries
  • maces
  • mallets
  • mauls
  • nightsticks
  • ranchers
  • rattans
  • rods
  • rungs
  • saps
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • sledgehammers
  • staffs
  • staves
  • stockmen
  • switches
  • truncheons
  • vaqueros
  • walking sticks
  • whangees
  • wranglers

walking sticks

  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • beetles
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • canes
  • clubs
  • crabsticks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • gavels
  • hammers
  • hickories
  • knobkerries
  • maces
  • mallets
  • mauls
  • nightsticks
  • rattans
  • rods
  • rungs
  • saps
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • sledgehammers
  • staffs
  • staves
  • switches
  • truncheons
  • waddies
  • whangees

canes

  • assails
  • assaults
  • attacks
  • bashes
  • bastes
  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • batters
  • beats
  • beetles
  • belabors
  • belts
  • besets
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • boxes
  • buffets
  • bungs up
  • busts
  • chops
  • clobbers
  • clouts
  • clubs
  • cowhides
  • crabsticks
  • cracks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • cuffs
  • curries
  • does
  • drubs
  • fibs
  • flagellates
  • flogs
  • fustigates
  • gavels
  • gores
  • hammers
  • hickories
  • hides
  • hits
  • horsewhips
  • knobkerries
  • knocks
  • lacerates
  • laces
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • lams
  • lashes
  • lathers
  • lays on
  • leathers
  • licks
  • maces
  • maims
  • mallets
  • mangles
  • mauls
  • mutilates
  • nightsticks
  • paddles
  • pastes
  • pelts
  • pistol-whips
  • pommels
  • pounds
  • pummels
  • punches
  • punches out
  • raids
  • rattans
  • rawhides
  • rods
  • rungs
  • rushes
  • saps
  • scourges
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • slams
  • slaps
  • slates
  • sledgehammers
  • slogs
  • smacks
  • smashes
  • socks
  • spanks
  • staffs
  • staves
  • storms
  • straps
  • swats
  • swipes
  • switches
  • tans
  • thrashes
  • threshes
  • thumps
  • thwacks
  • tromps
  • truncheons
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • wallops
  • whacks
  • whales
  • whams
  • whangees
  • whaps
  • whips
  • whomps
  • whops
  • whups
  • works over
  • wounds

saps

  • attenuate
  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • beetles
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bleed
  • blockheads
  • bludgeons
  • blunt
  • boobies
  • breaks down
  • butts
  • canes
  • chump
  • chumps
  • clubs
  • crabsticks
  • cripples
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • damages
  • debilitate
  • debilitates
  • deplete
  • depletes
  • depresses
  • derisions
  • destroy
  • devitalize
  • devitalizes
  • disables
  • dodoes
  • dodos
  • dolt
  • dolts
  • dopes
  • drain
  • dumbbells
  • dummies
  • dunces
  • dupe
  • dupes
  • enervate
  • enervates
  • enfeeble
  • enfeebles
  • erode
  • etiolates
  • exhaust
  • exhausts
  • fool
  • fools
  • gavels
  • geese
  • gulls
  • half-wits
  • hammers
  • hamstrings
  • harms
  • hickories
  • hurts
  • idiot
  • idiots
  • imbeciles
  • impair
  • impairs
  • impoverishes
  • incapacitates
  • injures
  • invalids
  • jackasses
  • jerk
  • knobkerries
  • laughingstocks
  • lays up
  • losers
  • lunatics
  • maces
  • mallets
  • marks
  • mauls
  • mockeries
  • mocks
  • monkeys
  • morons
  • mugs
  • nightsticks
  • nincompoops
  • ninnies
  • nitwit
  • nitwits
  • paralyzes
  • patsies
  • patsy
  • pigeon
  • pigeons
  • prostrate
  • prostrates
  • pushovers
  • rattans
  • rob
  • rods
  • ruin
  • rungs
  • schlemiels
  • schlubs
  • schlumps
  • schnooks
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • shlemiels
  • shlubs
  • simpleton
  • simpletons
  • simps
  • sledgehammers
  • soft touches
  • softens
  • staffs
  • staves
  • subvert
  • sucker
  • suckers
  • switches
  • targets
  • tires
  • tools
  • truncheons
  • turkeys
  • undermine
  • unmans
  • victims
  • vitiate
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • washes out
  • wastes
  • weakens
  • weakling
  • wear down
  • wears down
  • wears out
  • whangees
  • wreck
  • yo-yos

maces

  • bastinades
  • bastinadoes
  • batons
  • bats
  • beetles
  • billies
  • billy clubs
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • bludgeons
  • canes
  • clubs
  • crabsticks
  • crooks
  • crosiers
  • croziers
  • cudgels
  • gavels
  • hammers
  • hickories
  • knobkerries
  • mallets
  • mauls
  • nightsticks
  • rattans
  • rods
  • rungs
  • saps
  • shillalahs
  • shillelaghs
  • sledgehammers
  • staffs
  • staves
  • switches
  • truncheons
  • waddies
  • walking sticks
  • whangees

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