Gavel

(noun.) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge.

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• It had a reel to gather the grain to the cutter, and the grain platform was tilted to drop the gavel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The development began by replacing the gavel receptacle on the right of that machine (Fig. 152) with a platform on which stood men who rode on the machine as they bound the grain. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The next step, and, perhaps the most important one, in the development of the reaper, was in providing automatic devices for binding the gavels of grain into sheaves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1806, Gladstone of England built and patented a machine which not only attempted to cut the grain, but also to deliver it in gavels to be bound. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The stalks should be cut close to the ground and thrown into bundles or gavels. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• This seat which carried the raker enabled him while riding to rake the grain from the platform and deposit it in gavels on the ground. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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