Mallet
['mælɪt]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc..
(noun.) a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball.
Editor: Luke--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Anatole
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wooden hammer.
Editor: Maris
Definition
n. a small wooden hammer: the long-handled hammer for driving the balls in croquet.
Checker: Lola
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a mallet, denotes you will meet unkind treatment from friends on account of your ill health. Disorder in the home is indicated.
Inputed by Hilary
Examples
- Now, Miss Jo, I'll settle you, and get in first, cried the young gentleman, swinging his mallet for another blow. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The lower view shows a Mallet Articulated Type freight locomotive, one of the largest ever built. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So, taking hammers and mallets, they broke the precious forms of type into thousands of fragments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Checked by Danny