mallet

Noun

mallet (plural mallets)

1. (Tool) A small maul with a short handle, used especially for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like.
2. (Weapon) A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.

   Quotations

   • 1786: The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51.

3. A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.

6 letters in word "mallet": A E L L M T.

No anagrams for mallet found in this word list.

Words found within mallet:

ae al ale all alme alt am at ate ea eat el ell elm elt em et eta la lam lame lat late lea leal leam leat let ma mae mal male mall malt mat mate me meal meat mel mela mell melt met meta metal ta tae tael tale tall tam tame te tea teal team tel tela tell

• Definitions:
• a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike percussion instruments a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
• A mallet is a type of hammer, and is manufactured in different designs according to their intended use. These uses include manufacturing and construction, sports such as croquet and polo, and as a type of drumstick.
• Mallet is a lunar crater on the near side of the Moon. It is located next to the linear valley named Vallis Rheita, in the rugged southeastern quadrant. To the northwest along the same valley formation is the Young crater.
• MALLET is an integrated collection of Java code useful for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text. ...
• A putter that has a head that is much wider and heavier than that of a blade putter.
• a specialized tree growth form found only in Western Australia, having slender erect stems and steeply angled branches but lacking the regenerative structures found in many other eucalypts, viz. lignotubers and epicormic buds
• Wooden hammers, used for beating or driving other tools employed in Marble working. The best have knobs of boxwood, alder, or horn beam. Those of iron are called sledge-hammers.
• Object used to strike a percussion instrument. Can have woolen or synthetic tips to create different sounds. Also can take on a hammer style shape used for chimes.
• One of a number of characters used ubiquitously in examples of cryptographic interchanges. Mallet takes the part of a man-in-the-middle, intercepting an exchange between Alice and Bob. ...
• Mallets for handbells vary according to the bells they are intended to strike, and the sound that is to be produced. For the highest bells, hard rubber or plastic mallets might be used. For the midrange bells, yarn mallets are frequently used. For the bass bells, large soft mallets are used. ...
• A two-headed hammer, often made of wood, rubber, or plastic. The handle is wood.
• A tool usually made of sturdy hard wood with a metal-reinforced striking surface; used to flatten thin cuts of meat or poultry and for cracking the shells of cooked crabs and lobsters.
• The instrument used to move the ball. Although fibreglass has been used in its construction, the shaft is most often still made of bamboo. A hardwood head is used and the ball hit with the side of the head.
• The device players use to strike a puck. Also called "strikers", "paddles", or "pushers". Traditional arcade air hockey mallets are the white high-topped mallets. There are also low-top air hockey mallets in a variety of materials and handle options which provide more control or greater speed.
• a surgical instrument in the shape of a double-ended blunt hammer, used to drive other surgical tools or devices into bone.

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