different between mallet vs malled

English

Etymology

From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæl?t/
• Rhymes: -æl?t

Noun

mallet (plural mallets)

1. 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.

2. A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
3. A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
4. A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
5. The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.

Derived terms

• malleter
• Mallet (cryptography)

Translations

Verb

mallet (third-person singular simple present mallets, present participle malleting, simple past and past participle malleted)

1. (transitive) To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.
   • 2007, John Geddes, Highway to Hell (page 220)

     […] and when a couple of insurgents ran in to make the capture she malleted them with her rifle.

Related terms

• malleable
• malleate

Further reading

• mallet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mallet in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mallet at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• metall.

Latin

Verb

m?llet

1. third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of m?l?

English

Verb

malled

1. simple past tense and past participle of mall