Mallet Definition

mălĭt
mallets
noun
mallets
A kind of hammer, usually with a heavy wooden head and a short handle, for driving a chisel, etc.
Webster's New World
A long-handled hammer with a cylindrical wooden head, used in playing croquet.
Webster's New World
A similar tool with a rubber, leather, or plastic head, used to strike a surface without damaging it.
American Heritage
A similar instrument, but with a longer, flexible handle, used in playing polo.
Webster's New World
A small, light hammer, usually with a felt-covered head, used for playing a vibraphone, xylophone, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb

To strike with a mallet.

Wiktionary
pronoun
(cryptography) Often the malicious party in examples of threat scenarios (synonym: Mallory). See Alice and Bob.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Mallet

Noun

Singular:
mallet
Plural:
mallets

Origin of Mallet

  • From Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet"), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer"), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet").

    From Wiktionary

  • Cryptographic scenarios use archetypal characters with standard names chosen to remember their role: Mallet was derived from "malicious" and "man-in-the-middle attack", as well as a mallet.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French maillet diminutive of mail maul maul

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Derived from the name of the inventor, Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet

    From Wiktionary

Mallet Sentence Examples

  • Mallet, at the Creusot works in Bayonne.

  • In one respect Mallet gave him good counsel in those early days.

  • Also Zeller, Socrates and the Socratic Schools; Dyeck, De Megaricorum doctrines (Bonn, 1827); Mallet, Histoire de l'ecole de Megare (Paris, 1845); Ritter, Ober die Philosophie der r meg.

  • Afterwards it came into the possession of the Norman barons Malet or Mallet, one of whom was fined for rebellion in the reign of King John.

  • A rubber mallet is used to tap the bearing gently into place.

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Words Starting With

MMAMAL

Words Ending With

TETLET

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With M6 Letter Words Ending With T