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mallet
[ mal-it ]
noun
- a hammerlike tool with a head commonly of wood but occasionally of rawhide, plastic, etc., used for driving any tool with a wooden handle, as a chisel, or for striking a surface.
- the wooden implement used to strike the balls in croquet.
- Polo. the long-handled stick, or club, used to drive the ball.
mallet
/ ˈmælɪt /
noun
- a tool resembling a hammer but having a large head of wood, copper, lead, leather, etc, used for driving chisels, beating sheet metal, etc
- a long stick with a head like a hammer used to strike the ball in croquet or polo
- a very large powerful steam locomotive with a conventional boiler but with two separate articulated engine units
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of mallet1
Example Sentences
The work, titled “Walk with me, my joy” is a new work for flute, cello, mallet percussion, and piano.
You can also just use a chisel and mallet to remove the wood.
The initial belief is he has mallet finger, essentially a sprained joint that makes it hard to flex a finger.
Carlos Gracida 53, was killed in a freak accident, after his horse was hit on the head by another player's mallet.
“If they [the owners] want to get their tires, that will have to be negotiated,” said Mallet.
After the match William was presented with a mini polo mallet for his newborn son, Prince George.
He had to use his mallet to push himself back on board his polo pony, according to a report in today's Daily Express.
During a charity match in Barbados, Harry was thrown and then threw his polo mallet in anger.
Jones then went aft to a locker near the stern, whence he returned with a mallet and chisel, and went below.
To half a tennis-lawn add two ounces of croquet-mallet and three arches of pergola, and reduce the whole to a fine powder.
Then I stuck the mallet in my pocket, telling every one who cared to hear that I was carrying away a souvenir.
Girl as she was, in her studio at home she wielded for eight or ten hours a day a leaden mallet weighing four pounds and a half.
It seemed as if that great genius with a few blows of his mallet could have finished the indistinct labours of the giant.
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