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Definitions: Mallet |
MalletNoun1. A sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball. 2. A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike percussion instruments. 3. A tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mallet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Mallet \Mal"let\, noun. [French expression maillet, diminutive of mail. See Mall beetle.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a mallet, denotes you will meet unkind treatment from friends on account of your ill health. Disorder in the home is indicated. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A heavy, long-handled hammer for driving in wedges(e. g. in tree felling), posts, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | A heavy long-handled wooden mallet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: MalletSynonym: beetle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Clever | Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. (references; author: Mallet) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fatal Mallet (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Early level crew - passing the mallet Rear rodman passing front rodman, recorder pulling Rodman moving ahead will drive spike to steady rod.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Rear rodman passing front rodman, recorder pulling Passing the mallet so rear rodman can drive spike to steady rod Level crew of W. H. Burger.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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 | Raising arpeggiated mallet percussion with a pedal point. | | Mallet percussion sounds played by a machine with a loud motor. |
| Three different non-tuned bells hit with a mallet. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Mallet | Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, were there. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ruthie sprang at her, slapped her, pushed her, and wrested the mallet from her hands. |
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| "Mallet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.57% of the time. "Mallet" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75.57% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.43% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mallet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mallet | Last name | 1,000 | 14,841 |
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Expressions using "mallet": beat with a mallet ♦ carpenter's mallet ♦ croquet mallet ♦ polo mallet ♦ serving mallet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mallet": Mallet-prevost, Mallet-stevens. | |
Ending with "mallet": polo-mallet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mallet | 88 |
finger mallet | 47 |
mallet toe | 30 |
corvette mallet | 17 |
crab mallet | 17 |
curtis mallet | 13 |
rubber mallet | 12 |
croquet mallet | 12 |
mallet putter | 10 |
shepton mallet | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mallet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stap loje, çekiç druri. (various references) | |
Arabic | مطرقة خشبية (beetle), مطرقة (beetle, clapper, drop hammer, gavel, hammer, knocker, maul, rapper), مضرب الكرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пръчка за поло, дървен чук (beater). (various references) | |
Chinese | 短槌, 槌 (hammer, pestle). (various references) | |
Czech | udeřit palicí, kroketová palièka, dřevená palièka. (various references) | |
Danish | mukkert af trae (mall, maul, mawl), mukkert (mall, maul, mawl, sledge, sledge hammer), trækølle (mall, maul, mawl), træhammer (mall, maul, mawl), skovhammer (mall, maul, mawl), kroketkoelle, kitklump, kølle (heavy rapping hammer, hindquarter, leg and chumps), hammer (driver, hammer, heavy rapping hammer). (various references) | |
Dutch | slei (mall, maul, mawl), slegge (mall, maul, mawl), slaghamer, schijfje kitpek, houten hamer (mall, maul, mawl), hamer (hammer, ossicular chain), grote houten hamer (heavy rapping hammer), goudhamer, droef (dismal, gaunt, miserable, sad), croquethamer. (various references) | |
Farsi | پتک (Hammer, Sledge), چکش زدن (Hammer), چکش (Hammer), چوگان (Bat, Wicket), کلوخ کوب (Ram), کوبیدن (Beat, Bruise, Grind, Hammer, Knock, Nail, Pash, Pound, Ram, Smite, Stave, Stub, Thrash, Thresh), گرز (Club, Maul, Wand), زدن (Abaction, Amputate, Attain, Beat, Bop, Bruise, Clout, Cut, Haze, Imprint, Inject, Koran, Lam, Light, Lodge, Nail, Play, Poke, Pop, Shoot, Slap, Slat, Smite, Snip, Strike, Stroke, Whack). (various references) | |
Finnish | kittivasara, kittinuija, irtilyöntinuija (heavy rapping hammer), irtilyöntileka (heavy rapping hammer). (various references) | |
French | maillet (mall, maul, mawl). (various references) | |
German | Holzhammer (mall, maul, mawl, sledgehammer). (various references) | |
Greek | ξύλινο σφυρί (mall, maul, mawl, padded). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקבת (hammer, sledge), קור ס (drop hammer, maul, sledge, sledge hammer, triphammer), פטיש עץ, "למן (hammer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kalapács (dresser, fuller, gavel, hammer), sulyok (bat, battledore, beetle, dolly, mall, maul, monkey, ram), döngölő (pounder, rammer), ütő (bat, beater, club, hammer, racket, racquet, to toe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gandin (large mallet). (various references) | |
Italian | mazza (bat, bludgeon, club, heavy rapping hammer, mace, mall, maul, mawl, sledge hammer), maglio (hammer, mall, maul, mawl, power hammer, sledge hammer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 掛け矢 , 杵 (pestle, pounder), 槌 (gavel, hammer, sledge), 小槌 (gavel). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きね (pestle, pounder), つち (earth, gavel, hammer, sledge, soil), かけや, "づち (gavel). (various references) | |
Korean | 나무매. (various references) | |
Manx | tratnane (maul), thornane, sladdan (beetle, wash-staff), bwoaillteen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alletmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | malho (beetle, flail, mall, maul, mawl, sled, sledge), maço (beetle, bunch, bundle, mall, maul, mawl, pack, packet, sheaf, wad). (various references) | |
Romanian | mai (afresh, again, all over again, anew, another, approximative, beater, beetle, else, heh, heyday, I say, May, more, no, oh my, once more, paddle, rammer, really, rubbish, still), ciocan de lemn. (various references) | |
Romany | baròo chòokoos. (various references) | |
Russian | колотушка, деревянный молоток. (various references) | |
Scottish | simid (a mallet, beetle), fairche (hammer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | malj (beetle, maul, monkey), drveni čekić, bat (clatter, helve hammer). (various references) | |
Shona | ndovero. (various references) | |
Spanish | mazo (beater, beetle, club, cutting-hammer, gavel, harness, heavy rapping hammer, mace, mall, maul, mawl, plunger, pounder, scutch, stamper). (various references) | |
Swazi | s-ándvo se-lúkhûni. (various references) | |
Swedish | klubba (club, hammer, indian club, knock on the head, lollipop). (various references) | |
Turkish | tokmak (beetle, gavel, hammer, knob, Mall, maul, stick), çekiç (hammer). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tokmak (wooden hammer). (various references) | |
Ukranian | киянка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái v" (catch, caught). (various references) | |
Welsh | gordd (hammer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mallei, malleis, malleo, malleos, malleum, malleus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | maillet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mallet": mallets. (additional references) | |
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"Mallet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allett, Amleto, Maaleht, Mahlzeit, mailet, Maillet, malat, maleg, maleh, maleldil, maleta, Malev, Malew, maley, Malietoa, Malile, Mallart, mallat, malle, Mallei, mallen, Maller, malleto, mallett, mallic, mallot, malot, malte, Maolle, maplet, Marlet, Mavlyet, melet, melit, Mellet, mellte, melwert, milet, millett, millit, millnet, Mljet, mollet, mollett, Nalle, nallet, sallet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mallet" (pronounced ma"lut) |
| 4 | -a" l u t | ballot, palate, palette, pallet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-m-t" | |
-1 letter: metal. | |
-2 letters: alme, lame, late, leal, male, mall, malt, mate, meal, meat, mell, melt, meta, tael, tale, tall, tame, teal, team, tela, tell. | |
-3 letters: ale, all, alt, ate, eat, ell, elm, eta, lam, lat, lea, let, mae, mat, mel, met, tae, tam, tea, tel. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, am, at, el, em, et, la, ma, me, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-m-t" | |
+1 letter: mallets, tramell. | |
+2 letters: cellmate, martello, meatball, meltable, mentally, metalled, metallic, methylal, smallest, tallymen, tomalley, tramells. | |
+3 letters: allometry, allotment, blastemal, cellmates, collimate, elemental, lambently, lamellate, limitable, martellos, meatballs, medallist, metallics, metalling, metallize, metalloid, methylals, multilane, palmately, steamroll, thermally, tillerman, tomalleys, tramelled, treadmill, umbellate. | |
+4 letters: allometric, allotments, allurement, ameloblast, antebellum, bimetallic, collimated, collimates, elementals, emetically, haustellum, illuminate, lamentable, lamentably, lamentedly, literalism, malapertly, malevolent, materially, maternally, medallists, medullated, metallized, metallizes, metalloids, metallurgy, metrically, millstream, molalities, mortadella, mothballed, multilayer, myeloblast, semilethal, steamrolls, temporally, terminally, tramelling, trammelled, treadmills, ultimately. | |
+5 letters: alkalimeter, alkalimetry, allometries, allurements, ameloblasts, balletomane, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallist, drillmaster, elementally, emotionally, emulatively, gametically, gentlemanly, homiletical, illimitable, illuminated, illuminates, implantable, installment, lamellately, lamplighter, lineamental, literalisms, loathsomely, mammillated, mantelshelf, masterfully, matchlessly, matrilineal, megaloblast, meiotically, melanoblast, meltability, mesothelial, metallizing, metalloidal, millstreams, mimetically, misallocate, mortadellas, multibarrel, multibladed, multiplayer, multivalent, myeloblasts, nonmetallic, patelliform, rambouillet, segmentally, semilethals, semitonally, sillimanite, steamrolled, steamroller, thermically, trammelling, ultrasimple. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 6C 65 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-.. .-.. . - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l l e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 006C 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476778787186 |
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