mallet
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ɪt noun
1.
a hammerlike tool with a head commonly of wood but occasionally of rawhide, plastic, etc., used for driving any tool with a wooden handle, as a chisel, or for striking a surface.
2.
the wooden implement used to strike the balls in croquet.
3.
Polo. the long-handled stick, or club, used to drive the ball.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a tool resembling a hammer but having a large head of wood, copper, lead, leather, etc, used for driving chisels, beating sheet metal, etc |
| 2. | a long stick with a head like a hammer used to strike the ball in croquet or polo |
| 3. | chiefly (US) a very large powerful steam locomotive with a conventional boiler but with two separate articulated engine units |
| [C15: from Old French maillet wooden hammer, diminutive of mail | |
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Mallet
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Word Origin & History
mallet
1392, from O.Fr. maillet "small wooden hammer," dim. of mail, from L. malleus "hammer," from PIE *mele- "to grind, crush" (cf. L. molere "to grind," Gk. mylos "millstone," O.E. melu "meal," O.C.S. mlatu, Rus. molotu "hammer").
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
And that idea is: me chasing you with a big wooden mallet.
Drip glue inside each dowel hole and pound dowels into place with a mallet.
Steamed glutinous rice is vigorously pounded with a mallet until it achieves an even stickier consistency.
Where shell is thick, it must be broken with a mallet or hammer.
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