mallet

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

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

The ensemble spends much of its time on mallet instruments, setting the stage, keeping a melodic line or pulse going.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

As Tom uses a mallet to hammer in the homemade signs, passing motorists sound their horns.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

Within a few days, Joe had mastered the froe and the mallet and could size up a log and split shakes from it nearly as quickly and decisively as Charlie could.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown