Clues for the word "GAVEL"
We've had 93 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 142 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 15, 2025.
Definition of gavel
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Auctioneer's aid
- Signal in a courtroom
- Court attention-getter
- Court instrument
- "The People's Court" prop
- It may be within a judge's grasp
- Something a chair may hold
- Hammer for a court justice
- Judge's attention getter
- Courtroom rapper
- Rapper in court
- Hearing aid?
- Order-restoring tool
- Auction prop
- Auction accessory
- Chair's need
- Symbol of authority
- Judge's tool
- Judge's need
- Attention-getter, for a judge
- Meeting hammer
- It makes noise in the courtroom
- Courtroom item
- Hammer on a bench
- Auctioneer's attention-getter
- Hammer in the courtroom
- Magisterial mallet
- Small mallet
- Trial prop
- Bench banger
- Attention-getter, in court
- Auctioneer's tool
- Judge's mallet
- It may punctuate a court order
- Judge's rapper
- Judge's prop
- Auctioneer's prop
- It goes "bang!" in a courtroom
- Court rapper
- "Order in the court!" punctuator
- Court tool
- It helps call a meeting to order
- Court knocker
- Chairman's need
- "Order! Order!" mallet
- 'The People's Court' prop
- It's pounded to get attention
- Legal banger
- "Sold!" punctuator
- "Case dismissed" punctuation mark
- Judge's hammer
- Judge's silencer?
- Auctioneer's accessory
- Courtroom attention-getter
- Courtroom hammer
- It gets banged in the courtroom
- Court prop
- Pounder in the courtroom
- Order deliverer
- Auctioneer's hammer
- Judge's attention-getter
- Prop for Judge Judy
- Attention-getter in court
- "Case dismissed" item
- Knocker provided by learner
- Courtroom mallet
- Mallet
- Let the learner have the hammer
- Left-handed first to provide a banger
- Hammer useful when there's a gale raging around the civic centre
- Chairman's prop
- A lot may go when it falls
- Judicial hammer
- Chairman's hammer
- Auction mallet
- Courtroom rapper?
- Knocker provided last of all
- Chairperson's order keeper
- Handed a learner a hammer
- Paid a pound for a hammer
- Hammer
- It gives a rap
- Order keeper in the court
- Bench mallet
- A chair might hold one
- Prop in a legal drama
- Chair's accessory
- Small hammer
- Chairperson's hammer
- What may bring a meeting to order
- Ito's hammer
- Auctioneer's mallet
- It's often rapped but never spoken
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 15, 2025
- New York Times - December 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 13, 2025
- New York Times - November 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 18, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 09, 2024
- USA Today - June 01, 2024
- LA Times - January 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 29, 2023
- New York Times - March 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 28, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 16, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 31, 2022
- New York Times - August 28, 2022
- Family Time - July 24, 2022
- Mirror Quick - October 28, 2017
- Netword - October 11, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 06, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 24, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 23, 2017
- And in 112 more crossword puzzles...