Mallet
11mallet — ► NOUN 1) a hammer with a large wooden head. 2) a long handled wooden stick with a head like a hammer, for hitting a croquet or polo ball. ORIGIN Old French maillet, from Latin malleus hammer …
12mallet — [mal′ət] n. [ME malyet < MFr maillet, dim. of mail < OFr maile: see MAUL] 1. a kind of hammer, usually with a heavy wooden head and a short handle, for driving a chisel, etc.: see HAMMER 2. a) a long handled hammer with a cylindrical wooden …
13Mallet — For other uses, see Mallet (disambiguation). A mallet is a kind of hammer, usually of rubber,or sometimes wood smaller than a maul or beetle and usually with a relatively large head. Contents 1 Tools 2 Musical instruments 3 Toys …
14Mallet — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sommaire 1 Patronyme 2 Toponyme 2.1 …
15mallet — also See bossing mallet rubber mallet wood mallet …
16mallet — 1. noun a) A small maul with a short handle, used especially for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like. The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now… …
17mallet — UK [ˈmælɪt] / US [ˈmælət] noun [countable] Word forms mallet : singular mallet plural mallets 1) a wooden hammer with a large piece of wood or rubber on the end 2) a long stick with a large piece of wood on the end, used for hitting the ball in… …
18mallet — n. a police officer. □ Sam was struck by a mallet this noon. □ Some mallet is going around asking questions about you …
19mallet — Synonyms and related words: air hammer, ball peen hammer, beetle, chipping hammer, chisel, claw hammer, drop hammer, electric hammer, jackhammer, modeling clay, pile hammer, point, raising hammer, riveting hammer, rubber mallet, sledge,… …
20mallet — [15] Latin malleus meant ‘hammer’ (it may be related to Latin molere ‘grind’, and to Russian mólot and Polish młot ‘hammer’). It passed into Old French as mail, of which the derivative maillet eventually reached English as mallet. Mail itself was …
