mallet

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

🦇

Translations

maillet

mazo

🔨

maglio

malho

Holzhammer

slaghamer

Schlägel

Schlegel

ματσόλα

droef

☹️

martello di legno

moker

mazzuolo

croquethamer

Hammer

🔨

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmælɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from 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”).