Gavel

1. n. Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
2. n. A gable.
3. n. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
4. n. The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
5. n. A mason’s setting maul.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.