gavels

noun

plural of gavel
as in hammers

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  1. sledgehammers
  2. canes
  3. beetles
  4. truncheons
  5. batons
  6. nightsticks
  7. bludgeons
  8. cudgels
Noun
  • Demonstrators wearing masks tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed sidewalks with sledgehammers to toss at riot police.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Workers use sledgehammers to pound stakes for the big top, then toss the sledgehammers to each other in a sort of juggling routine.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
Definition of sledgehammers
Noun
  • Snappers, snakes, toy pistols with caps and toy canes with caps are the only fireworks allowed.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • Then, the hydrangea grows new canes while the first round is blooming.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
Definition of canes
Noun
  • These small beetles are sometimes confused with ladybeetles (which feed on bean beetle eggs), thanks to their similar shape and black spots.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
  • What are Asian lady beetles Harmonia axyridis, also known as the Asian lady beetle, is a relatively new arrival to this country.
    — Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025
Definition of beetles
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  • Hundreds of people crowded the runway to greet Ali, pushing against a cordon of soldiers armed with truncheons.
    — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • For the Civil Rights Movement, Alabama troopers lifting truncheons to beat marchers crossing Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Definition of truncheons
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  • Videos showed police beating back agitators with batons and deploying anti-riot ordnance as the demonstrators chanted against the country's conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a massive political rally.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • In all, 1,900 volunteer marshals, most from the East End and equipped with yellow batons, seem to be cherishing their assignments.
    — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Definition of batons
Noun
  • No shots were fired, but many were struck with nightsticks and rifle butts, and about 250 were arrested.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Definition of nightsticks
Noun
  • There’s Xi Jinping mogging Bibi Netanyahu while deafeningly aggro phonk bludgeons away; hype montages paint Marx as history’s greatest theorist and pair Zohran Mamdani quotes with Playboi Carti Die Lit cuts.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of bludgeons
Noun
  • When words lose their original meanings and are repurposed as verbal cudgels, the public sphere becomes a jungle of denunciation, intimidation, and even violence.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • While the conservative pushback and Trump’s cudgels are encouraging some companies to abandon formal DEI policies, analysts say an emphasis on diversity continues and is quietly evolving beneath the surface.
    — William Becker, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025
Definition of cudgels
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