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
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:
malletPlural:
malletsOrigin of Mallet
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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.
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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
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