Mallet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a hammerlike tool with a head commonly of wood but occasionally of rawhide, plastic, etc., used for driving any tool with a wooden handle, as a chisel, or for striking a surface.
  2. the wooden implement used to strike the balls in croquet.
  3. the long-handled stick, or club, used to drive the ball.
noun
  1. a tool resembling a hammer but having a large head of wood, copper, lead, leather, etc, used for driving chisels, beating sheet metal, etc
  2. a long stick with a head like a hammer used to strike the ball in croquet or polo
  3. a very large powerful steam locomotive with a conventional boiler but with two separate articulated engine units
Mallet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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