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nouna 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
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nouna light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
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nouna sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a balltype of:
Definition that contains mallet
- polo a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball
- gavel a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
- xylophone a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
- marimba a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
- polo mallet a mallet used to strike the ball in polo
- carpenter's mallet a short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge
- polo stick a mallet used to strike the ball in polo
- pall-mall a 17th century game; a wooden ball was driven along an alley with a mallet
- croquet mallet a mallet used to strike the ball in croquet
- wood chisel a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand