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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
/ ˈæɪ /
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
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mallet1
Example Sentences
Quite taken by Ayers's enthusiasm and delight at the performance, Hampton gifted the youngster a pair of vibe mallets.
"While wielding the mallet... a shock in my eye, I have to be hospitalised. Retinal detachment," he would write in a memoir years later.
According to prosecutors, Tomasini bludgeoned 66-year-old Shojai, a disability rights advocate, at least 17 times with a mallet in her San Diego home after she broke off their romantic relationship that developed at church.
"It's so hard to do, number one. Number two, my back and my neck from swinging that hammer around, or mallet, I think it's called, if you're in the know, it's polo language."
In his memoir, “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics,” Biden acknowledged discovering a polo mallet, riding breeches and other markers of a privileged life in his father’s closet.
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