- a small hammer with which an auctioneer, a judge, or the chair of a meeting hits a surface to call for attention or order（拍卖商、法官或会议主席敲击桌面以引起注意或下达命令的）小槌。
(gavelled, gaveling; <美> gaveled, gaveling) with obj.and adverbial
- bring (a hearing or person) to order by use of such a hammer击槌要求…遵守秩序：
he gavelled the convention to order.
他击槌以恢复大会的秩序。
词源
early 19th cent. （originally US in the sense 'stonemason's mallet'）： of unknown origin.