Past tense of gavel; having been struck with a gavel to signal an official decision or to call for order.
British spelling variant of 'gaveled,' from gavel plus -ed suffix. The double 'l' reflects traditional British English spelling conventions for short vowel words.
The British spelling 'gavelled' with double-L tells you something about 19th-century courtrooms across the Atlantic—British judges apparently banged their gavels just as enthusiastically as American ones.
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