Chairman vs. Gavel: What's the Difference?

The presiding officer of an assembly, meeting, committee, or board.

One that a judge or presiding officer raps to signal for order.

The administrative head of a department of instruction, as at a college.

One that an auctioneer raps to mark the end of a transaction.

To act as chairman of

A maul used by masons in fitting stones.

A person presiding over a meeting.

Tribute or rent in ancient and medieval England.

The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.

To bring about or compel by using a gavel

(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.

(historical) Rent.

To serve as chairman.

(obsolete) Usury; interest on money.

The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

(historical) An 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.

One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.

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.

The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;

The legal system as a whole.

Act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;

A mason's setting maul.

A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

(transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.

To use a gavel.

A gable.

A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

A mason's setting maul.

Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.

A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge