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mallet

[mal-it] / ˈmæl ɪt /


NOUN
mace
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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

"While wielding the mallet... a shock in my eye, I have to be hospitalised. Retinal detachment," he would write in a memoir years later.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025

The remaining icicles were put into the pail, and with the mallet, Duane hammered them and crushed them into something like snow, but still with the icy crunch he preferred.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

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

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

Quite taken by Ayers's enthusiasm and delight at the performance, Hampton gifted the youngster a pair of vibe mallets.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024

Crossover Bordun: The mallets cross over to play the pattern.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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