mallet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
entertainment
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sports
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).
Inflected forms:
form: mallets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mallets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: malleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: malleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: malleted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Carpenters use mallets for assembling.
We used a mallet to drive the tent pegs into the ground.
gloss: A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
pos: noun
examples: The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form.
gloss: A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
pos: noun
gloss: A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
pos: noun
examples: I had had no opportunity as yet of passing on Poirot’s message to Lawrence. But now, as I strolled out on the lawn, still nursing a grudge against my friend’s high-handedness, I saw Lawrence on the croquet lawn, aimlessly knocking a couple of very ancient balls about, with a still more ancient mallet.
gloss: The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
pos: noun
examples: I regularly have cause to recall a scene from a novel called Madder Music, by Peter de Vries, in which the main character, a writer who specialises in polo, hears a match announcer telling newcomers to the ground that, contrary to popular belief, the ball is struck with the side of the mallet, rather than the end.
gloss: To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] and when a couple of insurgents ran in to make the capture she malleted them with her rifle.
Derived words: croquet mallet
Mallet
malleter
mallet finger
malletman
mallet poison
mallet toe
serving mallet
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: թակ
roman: tʻak
lang: Aromanian
word: maljiu
lang: Aromanian
word: malj
lang: Aromanian
word: malju
lang: Bashkir
word: сүкеш
roman: sükeş
lang: Bashkir
word: балға
roman: balğa
lang: Bulgarian
word: дървен чук
roman: dǎrven čuk
lang: Catalan
word: maça
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 槌
roman: chuí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 木槌
roman: mùchuí
lang: Czech
word: palice
lang: Danish
word: kølle
lang: Esperanto
word: maleo
lang: Finnish
word: nuija
lang: French
word: maillet
lang: Galician
word: maza
lang: Galician
word: mazo
lang: Galician
word: pisón
lang: German
word: Holzhammer
lang: German
word: Klopfholz
lang: German
word: Gummihammer
lang: Greek
word: ματσόλα
roman: matsóla
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σφῦρα
roman: sphûra
lang: Italian
word: maglio
lang: Italian
word: mazzetta
lang: Japanese
word: 木槌
roman: kidzuchi
lang: Latin
word: malleus
lang: Latin
word: tudes
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Schlo
lang: Malay
word: gandin
lang: Malay
word: tukul kayu
lang: Maltese
word: mazzola
lang: Māori
word: kuru
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: klubbe
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: klubbe
lang: Persian
word: کدین
roman: kodin
lang: Persian
word: تخماق
roman: toxmâġ
lang: Polish
word: knypel
lang: Polish
word: drewniany młotek
lang: Polish
word: podbijak
lang: Polish
word: obijak
lang: Portuguese
word: malho
lang: Romanian
word: mai
lang: Russian
word: кия́нка
roman: kijánka
lang: Russian
word: колоту́шка
roman: kolotúška
lang: Russian
word: деревя́нный молото́к
roman: derevjánnyj molotók
lang: Spanish
word: mazo
lang: Swedish
word: klubba
lang: Swedish
word: hammare
lang: Tagalog
word: balatak
lang: Tarifit
word: azduz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طوقماق
roman: tokmak
lang: Finnish
word: maila
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چوگان
roman: çevgân