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GAVELLING

9 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

GAVELLING is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

GAVELLING root GAVEL-ling

Word family

GAVEL 2 GAVELS-s 3 GAVELING-ing 11 GAVELED-ed 5 GAVELLED-led 11
noun
  1. countablehistoricaluncountableRent.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableUsury; interest on money.
  3. countablehistoricaluncountableAn old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
  4. A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
  5. USmetonymicallyThe beginning or end of legal proceedings.
  6. USmetonymicallyThe legal system as a whole.
  7. A mason's setting maul.
  8. A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
  9. ScotlandarchaicA gable.
verb
  1. transitiveTo divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
  2. To use a gavel.
  3. To begin or end legal proceedings
    • The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.