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UK
/mˈælɪt/
]
[ US /ˈmæɫɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈmæɫɪt/ ]
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
- a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball
- a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
How To Use mallet In A Sentence
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- He did throw a strop, hurling his mallet and helmet to the ground in fury. The Sun
- Use a mallet or hammer to tap knife gently through flesh.
- All mallets shown below have similar options for the head styles, the differences are in the shaft types.
- An outdoor game in which the players drive wooden balls through a series of wickets using long-handled mallets.
- He used a mallet to crack open a case of wine in a ritual said to bring harmony and good fortune. The Sun
- Sorry to disappoint you, but I never got to see Fergie's polo mallets.
- To bruise herbs, Mr. Sullivan advises crushing then with the back of a large knife or tapping them with a mallet.
- This gives the workforce both a much greater capacity to coerce management and a consciousness of its collective power, claims Mallet.
- He might be tempted to take up croquet, or just the croquet mallet in pursuit of his enemies. Times, Sunday Times