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• Mallet Murphy — Residence Hell s Kitchen, New York, United States Nationality Irish American Occupation Saloon keeper and criminal associate of the Gopher Gang Known for Saloon keeper and underworld figure in New York City during the turn of the …   Wikipedia

• Mallet — For other uses, see Mallet (disambiguation). A mallet is a kind of hammer, usually of rubber,or sometimes wood smaller than a maul or beetle and usually with a relatively large head. Contents 1 Tools 2 Musical instruments 3 Toys …   Wikipedia

• Wooden fish — Muyu redirects here. For the town in Shennongjia District, see Muyu, Hubei. For the overseas studies program, see Woodenfish. A wooden fish (Chinese: 木魚, pinyin: mùyú), (Vietnamese …   Wikipedia

• mallet — ► NOUN 1) a hammer with a large wooden head. 2) a long handled wooden stick with a head like a hammer, for hitting a croquet or polo ball. ORIGIN Old French maillet, from Latin malleus hammer …   English terms dictionary

• mallet — [mal′ət] n. [ME malyet < MFr maillet, dim. of mail < OFr maile: see MAUL] 1. a kind of hammer, usually with a heavy wooden head and a short handle, for driving a chisel, etc.: see HAMMER 2. a) a long handled hammer with a cylindrical wooden …   English World dictionary

• mallet — (n.) late 14c., from O.Fr. maillet mallet, small wooden hammer, door knocker, dim. of mail, from L. malleus a hammer, from PIE *mal ni , from root *mele , *mel to crush, grind, with derivatives referring to ground material and tools for grinding… …   Etymology dictionary

• mallet — 1. noun a) A small maul with a short handle, used especially for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like. The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now… …   Wiktionary

• mallet — UK [ˈmælɪt] / US [ˈmælət] noun [countable] Word forms mallet : singular mallet plural mallets 1) a wooden hammer with a large piece of wood or rubber on the end 2) a long stick with a large piece of wood on the end, used for hitting the ball in… …   English dictionary

• mallet — [[t]mæ̱lɪt[/t]] mallets N COUNT A mallet is a wooden hammer with a square head …   English dictionary

• Mallet — 1) A hammer type weapon, with a heavy leaden head on a five foot wooden shaft. (Seward, Desmond. Henry V: The Scourge of God, 223) 2) Long handled mallet often carried by English longbowmen and used as both a weapon and a tool. (Wise, Terence.… …   Medieval glossary

• mallet — /mal it/, n. 1. a hammerlike tool with a head commonly of wood but occasionally of rawhide, plastic, etc., used for driving any tool with a wooden handle, as a chisel, or for striking a surface. 2. the wooden implement used to strike the balls in …   Universalium