mallet

• bastinade
• bastinado
• bat
• baton
• beetle
• billy
• billy club
• birch
• blackjack
• bludgeon
• business
• cane
• club
• conk buster
• convincer
• cosh
• crabstick
• crook
• crosier
• crozier
• cudgel
• gavel
• hammer
• hickory
• knobkerrie
• mace
• maul
• nightstick
• persuader
• quarterstaff
• rattan
• rod
• rosewood
• rung
• sap
• shill
• shillalah
• shillelagh
• sledgehammer
• spice
• staff
• stave
• swatter
• switch
• truncheon
• waddy
• walking stick
• whangee
• works

• 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
  1. To beat or strike with a mallet.

• He used a mallet to gently tap the chisel into the wood.
• The carpenter picked up the mallet to shape the delicate carving.
• The judge struck the mallet on the podium, signaling the start of the trial.
• She carefully swung the mallet to knock in the wooden stakes.
• The mallet made a loud thudding sound when it hit the metal.

mace

waddie

waddy

walking stick

hammer

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