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Definition of Mallet

1. Noun. A sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball.

2. Noun. A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc..

3. Noun. A tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing.

Definition of Mallet

1. n. A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.

Definition of Mallet

1. a type of hammer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mallet

mallemuck mallemucks mallenders malleoincudal malleolar malleolar malleolar articular surface of fibula malleolar articular surface of tibia malleolar sulcus malleoli

malleolus malleolus malleolus lateralis malleolus medialis malleotomy mallet (current term) mallets mallet finger malleus malleus

malleuses malling mallings Mallon mallophaga Mallophaga Mallory's aniline blue stain Mallory's collagen stain Mallory's iodine stain Mallory's phloxine stain

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