Mallet

Noun

 * 1) A small maul with a short handle, used especially for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like.
 * 2) A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
 * 3) * 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51:
 * 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.
 * 1) A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
 * 2) The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.

Derived terms

 * malleter

Verb

 * 1) To strike with a mallet.

Related terms

 * malleable
 * malleate

Thesaurus
air hammer, ball peen hammer, beetle, chipping hammer, chisel, claw hammer, drop hammer, electric hammer, jackhammer, modeling clay, pile hammer, point, raising hammer, riveting hammer, rubber mallet, sledge, sledgehammer, solder, soldering iron, spatula, steam hammer, stone hammer, tack hammer, triphammer

Etymology
From mallet:, maillet:, diminutive of mal:, mail: <  malleus:.

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: maglio, mazzetta


 * Maltese: mazzola
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: klubba,


 * Finnish:


 * Swedish: stridsklubba


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Swedish: klubba