What's the difference between avel and gavel?

Avel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt the key was to use stretched vowels and to find an equivalent echo between "tout" and "tournaient": "They were reeling round: all reeled round and about them …" Historical details took hours of research: for a debauched night, Emma sports a "lampion" on one ear: not the unlikely "paper lantern" (Wall), nor a "cocked hat" ( Eleanor Marx Aveling , Russell and Davis), but a suitably Gypsy-like "lantern earring" – fashionable at the time.

Gavel


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than reopen debate following the frantic final 24 hours of horse trading, the new chair gavelled through the decision in a fraction of a second.
  • (2) Marci Hamilton, author of God vs the Gavel and chair of public law at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law , has been fighting RFRA laws for nearly two decades.
  • (3) Regular protests from their delegation are prone to trigger selective deafness in other negotiators and conference chairs, who gavel through decisions anyway.
  • (4) Indeed just a couple hours after Vollmer was lowered into the ground the new Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, raised her gavel for the first time.
  • (5) When in 2008 he lost his coveted chairmanship of the energy and commerce committee, a gavel first held in 1981, it was partly because fellow Democrats believed he was too close to the auto industry .
  • (6) For some, gavel-to-gavel TV and radio coverage is providing an unprecedented education about the workings of the courts, albeit a version that few poor people would recognise.
  • (7) "There are lots of times when stock prices jump thousands of percentage points and nobody's banging a gavel saying it shouldn't be allowed."
  • (8) McCarthy backed out, said he was not going to run at this time, then Speaker Boehner got up, said the election was postponed, then the chairwoman banged the gavel and the meeting was over,” Costello said.
  • (9) His hold on the Speaker's gavel is tenuous; there could be a challenge next January when the new Congress is sworn in, and he wants to protect his flank from far right attacks.
  • (10) There were whoops and whistles in the New York saleroom of Christie’s on Monday evening after Jussi Pylkkänen put down his gavel at $160m.
  • (11) The talks were on the verge of collapse with the Danish prime minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, bringing his gavel down to abandon the meeting.
  • (12) I see no objections,” said the expressionless French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, barely glancing at the rows of country delegates then sharply banging his gavel.
  • (13) When Laurent Fabius brought down his green gavel in Paris on Saturday, the atmosphere in the hall was said to be electric .
  • (14) Seated on his plinth he seemed a languid, even slightly twinkly figure, spectacles balanced on the bridge of his nose, a velvet glove rather than a clattering gavel.
  • (15) As speaker of North Carolina’s House, Tillis used his gavel to oversee a dramatic shift rightwards in the state legislature, rendering the state legislature one of the most conservative laboratories for radical policies outside of Kansas.
  • (16) The "gavel-to-gavel" radio and TV coverage of the trial became something of a cultural phenomenon, spawning spoof Twitter accounts and YouTube videos.
  • (17) During a House vote Thursday afternoon, Ryan could be seen talking with Gowdy – the popular chair of the select committee on Benghazi who was touted by some to become majority leader, back when McCarthy looked all but set to take the speaker’s gavel.
  • (18) Rogers gavels the first panel to a close and brings in panel 2.
  • (19) And when he brought his gavel down on a sale of $160m (the figure rises to $179.4m once you include all the fees) a new record had been set.
  • (20) The Copenhagen accord was gavelled through in the early hours of yesterday morning after a night of extraordinary drama and two weeks of subterfuge.

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