n. A heavy hammer or club of any sort; especially, a heavy wooden hammer used by carpenters. Compare mallet and beetle, 1.n. A war-hammer or martel-de-fer.n. The head or striking part of a war-hammer or martel-de-fer.n. The blunt or square projection of such a hammer, as distinguished from the beak on the opposite side of the handle: this blunt end was often divided into four, six, or more blunt points or protuberances.n. An old game played with a wooden ball in a kind of smooth alley boarded in at each side, in which the ball was struck with a mallet in order to send it through an iron arch called the pass, placed at the end of the alley.n. The mallet with which this game was played; also, the alley in which it was played.n. [⟨ mall, verb] A blow.To beat, especially with a mall or mallet; bruise.n. A public walk; a level shaded walk.n. A court: same as mallum, mallus.