mallet

(Engels)

Noun

1. 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.
2. A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
3. A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
4. A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
5. The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.

Verb

To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈmælɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: malet

In summary

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”).

Sinonieme

hammer

🔨

club

beetle

🪲

maul

gavel

cudgel

sledgehammer

striker

bludgeon

knob

pestle

stick

mall

idiot

jerk

knocker

lot

lump

mass

moron

multitude

paddle

pile

poop

💩

pounder

pulpwood

racket

racquet

ram

🐏

rammer

sap

shillalah

shillelagh

sledge

sledge hammer

swarm

swingle

wooden hammer

mashhammer

as in

rice-pounding mallet

club hammer

wooden mallet

mall hammer

mickle hammer

wooden bammer

bettle

accumulation

wooden maul

bat

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