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Definition

a piece of equipment for pounding or hitting

such 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

She split the logs with a mallet and wedge.

mallet = a tool resembling a hammer but with a large cylindrical head

Robinson Crusoe made a boat by hollwoing out a cedar-tree trunk with nothing but a mallet and chisel.
A polo ball is actually hit with the side of the mallet.
She plays the marimba with two mallets in each hand.
The mallet hesitated at the top of its swing.
Stephen King -- The Shining

mallet = a piece of equipment for pounding or hitting — like a hammer with a large cylindrical head

In each hole he used a mallet to pound in a trunnel peg of white oak
Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die

mallet = a piece of equipment for pounding

I heard myself scream, "Don't shoot him, don't shoot him," and at that moment Sam slammed backwards as if he'd been knocked over by a mallet.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
HORNBECK hands the JUDGE several bills from his mallet, and MEEKER pencils a receipt.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Dissatisfied, Max seized a heavy, mallet that was propped near some workman's tools.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
She led us up to the door of the unfinished house, where a rather little woman was working with mallet and chisel on the wall near by.
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
These men carried mallets in their gloved hands.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
Pincers and hammers, mallets and chisels would not get it out of my grip; no, nor lions' claws; the soul from out of my body first!"
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
Take the slough and the forge and the mallet and the lute, The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet
There I was immediately set to calking, and very soon learned the art of using my mallet and irons.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
It was the time when one hears by the side of the dockyard the caulking-mallets sounding against the hull of vessels.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Four beats, and swing your mallets as you have never swung them before in all your lives, for we have a new king.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
He looked like he had been fashioned by setting boulders atop boulders; his hands were iron mallets and his face rough-carved out of granite.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
The children laid their mallets on the ground and trooped silently off the court.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
I turned around: it was Don, and he was holding a croquet mallet in one hand.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
Deo looked up at the bronze image of the once famous Danish sculptor; he was clad in a belted tunic, a mallet in one hand, a chisel in the other.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

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