gavel

These should have been safely in Scotland's archives, not being offloaded to the highest bidder via a bang of the auctioneer's gavel.

Rather than give in, Self banged his gavel and ended the hearing.

Constitutional lawyer and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pretty much turned over his gavel to Elon Musk and his teenage Dogeboys:

When Trump's New York trial adjourned with a final bang of the gavel on Friday, it also brought to a close this particularly fraught chapter in his personal and political history.

It's not the first time that the fight over who should hold the gavel has revealed deep rifts in the Republican Party.