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A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
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n.
A spear or dart.
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A mason's setting maul.
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A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
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An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
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Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
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The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
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An iron crow or lever.
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A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.
v. t.
To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.
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A gable.
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Same as Gavelock.
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