Gavel
['gæv(ə)l] or ['gævl]
解释:
(n.) A gable.
(n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
(n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
(n.) A mason's setting maul.
(n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
整理:玛丽
同义词及近义词：
n. Mallet (of a presiding officer).
哈罗德手打
解释:
n. an old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed on the holder's death to all the sons equally.—v.t. to divide or distribute in this way.—ns. Gav′elkind a tenure now peculiar to Kent by which the tenant at fifteen can sell the estate or devise it by will the estate cannot escheat and on an intestacy the lands descend from the father to all sons in equal portions; Gav′elman a tenant holding land in gavelkind.
整理:辛克莱
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a gavel, denotes you will be burdened with some unprofitable yet not unpleasant pursuit. To use one, denotes that officiousness will be shown by you toward your friends.
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例句:
- It had a reel to gather the grain to the cutter, and the grain platform was tilted to drop the gavel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The development began by replacing the gavel receptacle on the right of that machine (Fig. 152) with a platform on which stood men who rode on the machine as they bound the grain. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The next step, and, perhaps the most important one, in the development of the reaper, was in providing automatic devices for binding the gavels of grain into sheaves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- In 1806, Gladstone of England built and patented a machine which not only attempted to cut the grain, but also to deliver it in gavels to be bound. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The stalks should be cut close to the ground and thrown into bundles or gavels. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- This seat which carried the raker enabled him while riding to rake the grain from the platform and deposit it in gavels on the ground. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
整理:彼得