Definition of mallet

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Mallet (n.) A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet..

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Croquet :: Croquet (n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern..
Croquet :: Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet..
Mall :: Mall (n.) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
Pall-mall :: Pall-mall (n.) A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall..
Chisel :: Chisel (n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer..
Commander :: Commander (n.) A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc..
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Mall :: Mall (n.) A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc..
Gavel :: Gavel (n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc..
Mace :: Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
Mallet :: Mallet (n.) A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones..
Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.
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