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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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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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