mallet
/ˈmælɪt/ noun C2- A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. · Carpenters use mallets for assembling.· We used a mallet to drive the tent pegs into the ground.
- A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
- A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
- A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
- The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
Plural mallets
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Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
The commissary took up an iron mallet and knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantès as if struck on his heart.
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