Word Finder - mallets

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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.

The perforation of the paper when done by hand is usually performed by means of small mallets, but at the central telegraph office in London, and at other large offices, the keys are only used for opening air-valves, the actual punching being done by pneumatic pressure.

We need some mini mallets in the future for Juniors.

The soft percussion mallets are the low rumbles of winds echoing across the still night.

The 4 hardwood mallets are 32.5 " long with smaller sized heads.

It was carried off in carts to open spaces, where an exposure of some weeks to the air was found to pulverize the hard rock far more efficiently than the old method of crushing with mallets.

Mallets include xylophone, marimba, chimes and others, while drums include snares, toms, bass drum, timpani, and others.

Since most schools and musical groups provide the instruments, what percussionists need to concern themselves with are mallets and drum sticks.

The wood of dogwood trees, especially Cornus florida, has been used to make bowls, pipes, mallets, golf clubs, and tool handles.

From the Mallets it went to the Gournays, but in 1536 it reverted to the crown, and it is now included in the duchy of Cornwall.

Execration of Haman, as the typical persecutor of the Jews, took various forms. In Germany wooden mallets were used in the synagogue to beat the benches when Haman's name was read out from the scroll of Esther, and during the festivities these mallets were sometimes used on the heads of the bystanders.

It can seldom be obtained in large portions, and has the disadvantage of being apt to warp; its great hardness, however, renders it valuable for the manufacture of various articles, such as the cogs of mill-wheels, flails and mallets, and handles of hammers.

They are then taken out and repeatedly turned over in the sun until perfectly dried, and afterwards beaten by mallets on stone slabs.

Willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with mallets, the doors opened before them.

During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken of now as the "Seeker," now as the "Sufferer," and now as the "Postulant," to the accompaniment of various knockings with mallets and swords.