martel

[mahr-tel, mahr-tel]

mar·tel

[mahr-tel, mahr-tel]
noun
a hammerlike, shafted weapon having a head with a point at one end and a blunt face at the other.
Also called mar·tel-de-fer [mahr-tel-duh-fer, mahr-tel-] .


Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *martellus, diminutive of Latin martulus, marculus hammer

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Mar·tel

[mahr-tel; Fr. mar-tel]
noun
Charles. Charles Martel.
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Martel (mɑːˈtɛl)
 
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See Charles Martel

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