Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gavel

1 sense of gavel

Sense 1
gavel -- (a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge)
       => mallet, beetle -- (a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing)