Gavel
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[from Sax. gafol, gafel, qq. v.] In English law. Custom, tribute; toll; yearly rent; payment or revenue; of which there were anciently several sorts; as gavel-corn, gavel-malt, oat-gavel, gavel-fodder, &c. Termes de la ley.
Cowell. Co. Litt. 142 a.