mallet
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.
the wooden implement used to strike the balls in croquet.
Polo. the long-handled stick, or club, used to drive the ball.
Origin of mallet
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How to use mallet in a sentence
The work, titled “Walk with me, my joy” is a new work for flute, cello, mallet percussion, and piano.
D.C.-based composer to present world premiere | Tinashe Chingarande | March 17, 2022 | Washington BladeYou can also just use a chisel and mallet to remove the wood.
The initial belief is he has mallet finger, essentially a sprained joint that makes it hard to flex a finger.
The Seahawks are in trouble. If Russell Wilson is hurt, they’re a calamity. | Matt Bonesteel | October 8, 2021 | Washington PostCarlos Gracida 53, was killed in a freak accident, after his horse was hit on the head by another player's mallet.
William and Harry's Polo Mentor Killed in Freak Accident | Tom Sykes | February 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“If they [the owners] want to get their tires, that will have to be negotiated,” said mallet.
After the match William was presented with a mini polo mallet for his newborn son, Prince George.
He had to use his mallet to push himself back on board his polo pony, according to a report in today's Daily Express.
During a charity match in Barbados, Harry was thrown and then threw his polo mallet in anger.
Power Tripping: King Juan Carlos I & More (Photos) | The Daily Beast | August 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTJones then went aft to a locker near the stern, whence he returned with a mallet and chisel, and went below.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneTo half a tennis-lawn add two ounces of croquet-mallet and three arches of pergola, and reduce the whole to a fine powder.
Then I stuck the mallet in my pocket, telling every one who cared to hear that I was carrying away a souvenir.
The White Desert | Courtney Ryley CooperGirl as she was, in her studio at home she wielded for eight or ten hours a day a leaden mallet weighing four pounds and a half.
Growing Up | Jennie M. DrinkwaterIt seemed as if that great genius with a few blows of his mallet could have finished the indistinct labours of the giant.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
British Dictionary definitions for mallet
/ (ˈmælɪt) /
a tool resembling a hammer but having a large head of wood, copper, lead, leather, etc, used for driving chisels, beating sheet metal, etc
a long stick with a head like a hammer used to strike the ball in croquet or polo
mainly US a very large powerful steam locomotive with a conventional boiler but with two separate articulated engine units
Origin of mallet
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