All 3 Uses of
mallet
in
Moby Dick
- "See you this?" and withdrawing it from the folds that had hidden it, he held up a white arm of sperm whale bone, terminating in a wooden head like a mallet.†
Chpt 100-102 *
- But the caulking mallet is full of it.†
Chpt 127-129
- This wooden mallet is the cork, and I'm the professor of musical glasses—tap, tap!"†
Chpt 127-129
Definition:
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(mallet) a piece of equipment for pounding or hittingsuch as:
- a tool resembling a hammer but with a large cylindrical head that is usually made of rubber or wood
- a long stick with a thick cylindrical head used to hit a ball in polo or croquet
- a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike percussion instruments