Word Finder - mallet

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A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.

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Carpenters use mallets for assembling.

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A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.

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A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.

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A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.

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The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.

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To beat or strike with a mallet.

Mallet, at the Creusot works in Bayonne.

In one respect Mallet gave him good counsel in those early days.

Also Zeller, Socrates and the Socratic Schools; Dyeck, De Megaricorum doctrines (Bonn, 1827); Mallet, Histoire de l'ecole de Megare (Paris, 1845); Ritter, Ober die Philosophie der r meg.

Afterwards it came into the possession of the Norman barons Malet or Mallet, one of whom was fined for rebellion in the reign of King John.

A rubber mallet is used to tap the bearing gently into place.

He renewed former acquaintance, however, with the " poet " Mallet, and through him gained access to Lady Hervey's circle, where a congenial admiration, not to say affectation, of French manners and literature made him a welcome guest.

But the material was also subject to other defects, such as moisture lurking between the layers, which might be detected by strokes of the mallet; spots or stains; and spongy strips (taeniae), in which the ink would run and spoil the sheet.

One motorist even admitted to storing a croquet mallet in his car.

From using this putter i would never go back to a mallet style putter.

Hold the screw head in a vise, and knock the spade with a mallet or club hammer to remove the stump.

It is pounded with an ivory or wood mallet which may be incised with cross-hatch or linear grooves to produce a subtle textured surface.

The DIPJ may just bend downwards itself while the rest of the toe remains straight (usually called a mallet toe ).

Mallet, Comptes rendus, 1867, 64,' p. 226; 1868, 66, p. 349); by the electrolysis of solutions of sodium hydroxide, using nickel electrodes; by heating calcium plumbate (obtained from litharge and calcium carbonate) in a current of carbon dioxide (G.

The transmission brake can now be worked off the gearbox output shaft carefully with a rawhide mallet.

The DIPJ may just bend downwards itself while the rest of the toe remains straight (usually called a mallet toe).

Add rum, sugar and lime juice and gently crush the mixture with a wooden spoon or mallet to release the flavor of the mint leaves.

Put a few in a resealable plastic bag, close the top, and use a rubber mallet to break them up.

Use the rubber mallet to tap the piece into place.

It was of the same type as Mallet's engine, and was made by simply bushing one cylinder of an ordinary two-cylinder simple engine, the bushed cylinder being the high-pressure and the other cylinder the low-pressure cylinder.

For making tin-foil the metal is rolled into thin sheets, pieces of which are beaten out with a wooden mallet.

The tools employed are chisel, gouge and mallet.

When it is remembered that the punching tool was guided solely by the hand and eye, and that three or more blows of the mallet had to be struck for every dot, some conception may be formed of the patience and accuracy needed to produce these tiny protuberances in perfectly straight lines, at exactly equal intervals and of absolutely uniform size.

In 1812 the Human Nature and the Liberty and Necessity (with supplementary extracts from the Questions of 1656) were reprinted in a small edition of 250 copies, with a meritorious memoir (based on Campbell) and dedication to Horne Tooke, by Philip Mallet.

His Northern Antiquities (1770) is a translation from the French of Paul Henri Mallet.

The ablest of the Royalist journals was Mallet du Pan's Mercure de France.

Hearing her he slams down the mallet and bellows, 'Ok Amber, those stones, whit difference dis it make?

Roger Mallet and Brian Tiley both shared a bumper haul consisting of 36 tench to 7lb 8oz.

I use a rubber mallet to finish driving them in.

Players hit colored balls through a series of wire hoops on grass lawn with a wooden mallet.

We carry a large wood mallet onboard to use in breaking the ice free.

Tapping all over the floor area with a small rubber mallet highlighted the areas where the tesserae were not fixed to the bed.

We used a heavy paving mallet to put a vibration impulse into the floor with simultaneous measurements being made in both buildings.

Beat chicken breasts with a meat mallet or rolling pin to flatten them slightly.

The Grand Master rapped with his mallet.

Use your rubber mallet and pull bar to keep things snug with a few gentle taps.

Tap the tile into place with a rubber mallet at all four corners as well as in the center of the tile.

As you go along, use the mallet to make sure all the tiles are set at the same height.

A piece of scrap wood between the edge of the flooring and the mallet helps protect the flooring from damage.

Pound the chicken breasts with a meat mallet until they are flat.

The examiner uses a rubber mallet to strike different points on the individual's body and observes the response.

When performing the Babinski reflex test, the doctor will gently stroke the outer soles of the person's feet with the mallet while checking to see whether the big toe extends out as a result.

From the Dutch master Jan Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' to contemporary artist Keith Mallet's 'Jubilation' there are a variety of styles to choose from to reflect your own unique taste and style.

Mallet almost made it into an earlier Bond film as the leading Bond girl in 1963's From Russia with Love.

The moko process relies on using sharpened uhi (chisels) made from Albatross bone and struck with a mallet to drive pigments into the skin.

A sharp object such as a bone needle is dipped into this ink much like a modern needle, then the needle is placed into the skin and tapped into place with a mallet.

Tattoo artists use high speed, magnetically powered tattoo guns to move the needle into the skin instead of a single needle with a tapper or mallet.

Remove the gills and intestinal vein, and use a mallet to crack the claws.

That 'laugh' landed the album in the number 2 spot in the UK charts, second only to kids' TV comic Timmy Mallet with his rendition of 'Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny'.

This was followed, next year, by translations of works on the Revolution by Mallet du Pan and Mounier, and at this time he also founded and edited a monthly journal, the Neue deutsche Monatsschrift, in which for five years he wrote, mainly on historical and political questions, maintaining the principles of British constitutionalism against those of revolutionary France.

Pradier and Chaponniere, the sculptors; Arlaud, Diday and Calame, the artists; Mallet, who revealed Scandinavia to the literary world; Necker, the minister; Sismondi, the historian of the Italian republics; General Dufour, author of the great survey which bears the name of the "Dufour Map," have each a niche in the Temple of Fame.