A person presiding over a meeting.
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
To serve as chairman.
Rent.
Usury; interest on money.
An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder’s death, to all the sons equally.
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge (not UK), or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
The legal system as a whole (not UK).
A mason’s setting maul.
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
To use a gavel.