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mallet

[mal-it] / ˈmæl ɪt /


NOUN
mace
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In the book Mr. King specifies that the instrument of destruction is a short roque mallet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Alternatively, use a meat mallet to flatten and add a pattern to the cookies.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

The mallet putter made its debut in his next event and Scheffler won four of his following five tournaments, including the Masters by four strokes.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

Meanwhile, Alison Ungaro, founder of the wellness non-profit UThrive Wellness, conducts the sound bath, gently circling the bowls with a mallet and intermittently hitting a small gong, while Ebsen guides her horses into the enclosure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

He put the saw away and brought the mallet to her.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

SINGAPORE—The crowd gasped as the brokers swung the wooden mallets on the lid of the sake barrel, cracking it open in celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

In the port of La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit cities, the BBC saw people using crowbars, mallets and pickaxes to try to dig out loved ones and neighbours.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

They had all the equipment at the ready: crowbars, shovels, and mallets.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024

The tools looked clean and well-oiled, saws, hammers, pliers, axes, mallets, planes, drills, screwdrivers, a level.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt


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