Mallet

Quick meaning: Mallet is a noun meaning (weaponry) A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.

Meaning

(weaponry) A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.

More Meanings

1. (music) A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
2. (games) A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
3. (sports) The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
4. (transitive) To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.
5. A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.

Example Sentences

Carpenters use mallets for assembling.

We used a mallet to drive the tent pegs into the ground.

[…] and when a couple of insurgents ran in to make the capture she malleted them with her rifle.

I had had no opportunity as yet of passing on Poirot’s message to Lawrence. But now, as I strolled out on the lawn, still nursing a grudge against my friend’s high-handedness, I saw Lawrence on the croquet lawn, aimlessly knocking a couple of very ancient balls about, with a still more ancient mallet.

Word Forms

• mallets
• malleting
• malleted

Related Words

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