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malletn.1

Brit. /ˈmalᵻt/, U.S. /ˈmælət/
Forms: Middle English mailet, Middle English mailȝet, Middle English maliot, Middle English malliet, Middle English malyet, Middle English malys (probably transmission error), Middle English maylat, Middle English maylet, Middle English maylette, Middle English mayllat, Middle English maylleot, Middle English–1500s maillet, Middle English–1600s malet, Middle English– mallet, 1500s malett, 1500s mallette, 1500s mayllet, 1600s mallett, 1800s malleet (Irish English).
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maillet.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman maillet, malleit, malliet, maylet, Middle French maillet (c1230 in Old French in sense ‘hammer’, 1306 ‘mace’; earliest in spec. sense ‘door-knocker’ (c1190)) < mail maul n.1 + -et -et suffix1.With sense 7a compare mall n.1, mail n.5, and French mail ; French maillet is attested in the sense ‘croquet mallet’ from 1879. In sense 3a after post-classical Latin malleus in this sense (see note s.v. maul n.1); quot. 1584 at sense 3a refers to J. Sprenger and H. Kraemer, Malleus Maleficarum (1486). In sense 6 perhaps after post-classical Latin malleus glanders (see malis n.; compare mellit n.). The surname Malet probably represents a number of different names of differing origins; however, medieval tradition referred at least one such name in the 11th cent. ultimately to Latin malleus on account of its bearer's fearsomeness in battle.
I. Senses relating to the tool.
1.
a. A kind of hammer, usually of wood, but sometimes of other materials, smaller than a maul or beetle and usually with a relatively large head.The mason's mallet is a broad, nearly cylindrical mass of wood, with a short handle set perpendicularly in the middle of the upper surface, and is used for driving a cold chisel; a similar implement is used for driving wedges. The carpenter's mallet for driving a chisel or gouge has usually a massive square or barrel-shaped head.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > mallet
malletc1400
mace1839
c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 69 (MED) Vnqore auez vn mallet..ȝyt haue ȝe a maylet.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 252 The sexte is a malliet to smyte þe lenticular.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 323 Malyet [Winch.:Way malys], malleolus.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 805/16 (MED) Hic porticulus: a maylat.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiiiv A malet to driue thy knife and thy wedge into the tre.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) iii. i. 104 Þe nayl þan til his hewide scho set, And straik on fast wiþe þat mailȝet.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxliiiv The bishop striketh on the gate with a golden mallet.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 108v For Pullyes..and Mallets, the meetest are the wylde Olyue, the Box.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xlix. 664 A carpenters chissell and a mallet.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xx. 146 The Vessel..was warily..struck in divers places with a Wooden Mallet.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cxlvi. 37 Their left-hand does the Calking-iron guide, The ratling Mallet with the right they lift.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 30 Printers Mallets have a Cilindrick Head, and a round Handle.
1720 J. Gay Fan i, in Poems I. 36 The weighty mallet deals resounding blows.
1828 W. Scott Tales of Grandfather 2nd Ser. xviii Mitchell..endured nine blows of the mallet with the utmost firmness.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm 1269 The stake e is driven into the ground by the wooden mallet.
1848 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (Cornwall Terms) 18 Mallet, an instrument used with the borer.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1749/2 The electric mallet is an automatic dental instrument for condensing the filling or plug in a tooth by a rapid succession of strokes imparted by means of electro-magnetism.
1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 107 Mallet for use with Osteotomy Chisel, boxwood.
1926 A. J. Carver in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 158 Old Zuboff..wielded the mallet and chisel adroitly.
1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 194 All about this vast array are..two kinds of mallet—the lignum vitae..and the square-headed one, of bronze.
1984 B. Reid So Much Love iii. 30 Sometimes he would have to hit the stone with a mallet seven or eight times before it broke into pieces.
†b. as sad as any mallet. Cf. beetle n.1 2. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
sloweOE
stuntc960
dullOE
hardOE
stuntlyc1000
sotc1050
dillc1175
dulta1225
simplea1325
heavy1340
astonedc1374
sheepishc1380
dull-witteda1387
lourd1390
steerishc1411
ass-likea1425
brainless?a1439
deafc1440
sluggishc1450
short-witted1477
obtuse1509
peakish1519
wearish1519
deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520
doileda1522
gross1526
headlessa1530
stulty1532
ass-headed1533
pot-headed1533
stupid?1541
sheep's head1542
doltish1543
dumpish1545
assish1548
blockish1548
slow-witted1548
blockheaded1549
surd1551
dull-headed1552
hammer-headed1552
skit-brained?1553
buzzardly1561
witless1562
log-headeda1566
assy1566
sottish1566
dastardly1567
stupidious1567
beetle-headed1570
calvish1570
bluntish1578
cod's-headed1578
grout-headed1578
bedaft1579
dull-pated1580
blate1581
buzzard-like1581
long-eared1582
dullard1583
woodena1586
duncical1588
leaden-headed1589
buzzard1592
dorbellical1592
dunstical1592
heavy-headeda1593
shallow-brained1592
blunt-witted1594
mossy1597
Bœotian1598
clay-brained1598
fat1598
fat-witted1598
knotty-pated1598
stupidous1598
wit-lost1599
barren1600
duncifiedc1600
lourdish1600
stockish1600
thick1600
booby1603
leaden-pated1603
partless1603
thin-headed1603
leaden-skulledc1604
blockhead1606
frost-brained1606
ram-headed1608
beef-witted1609
insulse1609
leaden-spirited1609
asininec1610
clumse1611
blockheadly1612
wattle-headed1613
flata1616
logger-headeda1616
puppy-headeda1616
shallow-patedc1616
thick-brained1619
half-headed1621
buzzard-blinda1625
beef-brained1628
toom-headed1629
thick-witted1634
woollen-witted1635
squirrel-headed1637
clod-pated1639
lean-souled1639
muddy-headed1642
leaden-witteda1645
as sad as any mallet1645
under-headed1646
fat-headed1647
half-witted1647
insipid1651
insulsate1652
soft-headed1653
thick-skulleda1657
muddish1658
non-intelligent1659
whey-brained1660
sap-headed1665
timber-headed1666
leather-headeda1668
out of (one's) tree1669
boobily1673
thoughtless1673
lourdly1674
logger1675
unintelligenta1676
Bœotic1678
chicken-brained1678
under-witted1683
loggerhead1684
dunderheaded1692
unintelligible1694
buffle-headed1697
crassicc1700
numbskulled1707
crassous1708
doddy-polled1708
haggis-headed1715
niddy-noddy1722
muzzy1723
pudding-headed1726
sumphish1728
pitcher-souleda1739
duncey1743
hebete1743
chuckheaded1756
dumb1756
duncely1757
imbecile1766
mutton-headed1768
chuckle-headed1770
jobbernowl1770
dowfarta1774
boobyish1778
wittol1780
staumrel1787
opaquec1789
stoopid1791
mud-headed1793
borné1795
muzzy-headed1798
nog-headed1800
thick-headed1801
gypit1804
duncish1805
lightweight1809
numbskull1814
tup-headed1816
chuckle-pate1820
unintellectuala1821
dense1822
ninnyish1822
dunch1825
fozy1825
potato-headed1826
beef-headed1828
donkeyish1831
blockheadish1833
pinheaded1837
squirrel-minded1837
pumpkin-headed1838
tomfoolish1838
dundering1840
chicken-headed1842
like a bump on a log1842
ninny-minded1849
numbheadeda1852
nincompoopish1852
suet-brained1852
dolly1853
mullet-headed1853
sodden1853
fiddle-headed1854
numb1854
bovine1855
logy1859
crass1861
unsmart1861
off his chump1864
wooden-headed1865
stupe1866
lean-minded1867
duffing1869
cretinous1871
doddering1871
thick-head1873
doddling1874
stupido1879
boneheaded1883
woolly-headed1883
leaden-natured1889
suet-headed1890
sam-sodden1891
dopey1896
turnip-headed1898
bonehead1903
wool-witted1905
peanut-headed1906
peanut-brained1907
dilly1909
torpid-minded1909
retardate1912
nitwitted1917
meat-headed1918
mug1922
cloth-headed1925
loopy1925
nitwit1928
lame-brained1929
dead from the neck up1930
simpy1932
nail-headed1936
square-headed1936
dingbats1937
pinhead1939
dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
twatty1975
twattish1976
blur1977
dof1979
goofus1981
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
numpty1992
cockish1996
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 12 I amaze me, though the fancy of this doubt be as obtuse and sad as any mallet, how the Licenser could sleep out all this.
†2. A mace. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > armed club
masuelc1312
macec1325
maulc1325
mell1333
brogged staff1429
balk-staffc1460
malleta1500
quarterstaff?1560
sport staff1634
morgenstern1637
roundhead1643
morning star1684
patu patu1769
patuc1771
shell-stick1790
holy water sprinkler1816
mace-head1824
shark's teeth sword1845
taiaha1845
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 4698 A [s]quare maillet the Geant gan hold.
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 4716 No-thyng was he wurth, right noght myght he do, Where cursedly had done with his maillet soo.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 329 The Geaunt..held in his hand a gret mayllet.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcvii. 278 b Also they had seruantes right well harnessed, bearynge great malettes of yron and stele, to confounde helmes.
II. In extended uses.
†3.
a. A person or agency that hits, beats down, or crushes something or someone. Obsolete.
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1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxxxvi. [clxxxii.] 232 The malettes were laide downe, to the entent to kepe vnder the parisyence.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. iv. f. 25v Sometyme lyke a mallet, to strike the Israelites.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 733/2 A verie Mallet of such strangers as sought preferment in this realme by the Popes prouisions.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xvi. i. 470 The booke called A Mallet to braine witches.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 212 You ask me to be the..reviewer of the reviews—the mallet of the malleters.
b. slang. The fist. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > fist
fista900
nievec1300
gripea1555
fistock1567
neufe1602
mauler1820
mallet1821
fives1825
duke1874
knobblies1898
1821 Sporting Mag. 8 234 Powel..went to work with his mallets at a tremendous rate.
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 709 He struck with his right mallet at Larkin's tripe-shop.
†4. Archaeology. = malleolus n. 1. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > fire-arrow
fire arrowa1540
mallet1541
fire shaft1628
malleolus1753
1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xviii. f. 32v Let them leaue lying in awayte about the consuls house,..to prepare mallettes and torches to set fyre on the citie.
1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xviii. f. 32v (note) Mallettes were lyke arrowes whiche were caste burnynge.
†5. Anatomy. = malleus n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of ear > malleus and parts
mallet1578
hammer1615
malleolus1615
malleus1646
manubrium1855
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 10v The other part, which is thicker, and endewed with a head..after ye maner of a Timpan..is called a Mallet or Hammer.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια viii. xv. 584 The Mallet or hammer.
1877 C. H. Burnett Ear 68 The malleus, or mallet, received its name from Vesalius.
†6. A disease of cattle (perhaps bovine farcy). Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle
murrainc1450
gall1577
gargyse1577
sprenges1577
wisp1577
closh1587
milting1587
moltlong1587
hammer1600
mallet1600
scurvy1604
wither1648
speed1704
nostril dropping1708
bladdera1722
heartsick1725
throstling1726
striking1776
feather-cling1799
hollow-horn1805
weed1811
blood striking1815
the slows1822
toad-bit1825
coast-fever1840
horn-distemper1843
rat's tail1847
whethering1847
milk fever1860
milt-sickness1867
pearl tumour1872
actinomycosis1877
pearl disease1877
rat-tail1880
lumpy jaw1891
niatism1895
cripple1897
rumenitis1897
Rhodesian fever1903
reticulitis1905
barbone1907
contagious abortion1910
trichomoniasis1915
shipping fever1932
New Forest disease1954
bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987
BSE1987
mad cow disease1988
East Coast fever2009
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxiii. 132 The stithie hapning to the oxe, being otherwise called a mallet or hammer, is knowen when the beast hath his haire standing vpright all ouer his body.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 172/2 Diseases in Cows... The Stithie, or the Mallet, or Hammer.
7.
a. Games. The long-handled wooden hammer used for striking the balls in croquet, (formerly) †pall-mall, or polo (obsolete); also (with modifying adjective): a person who wields a mallet in a game, a croquet-player.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > mallet
mallet1611
turf-spanker1874
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > polo > [noun] > equipment
pall-mall1605
pall-mall beetle1644
mall1662
polo stick1873
polo ball1886
mallet1897
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Leve, a Mallet..wherewith the bowle is raysed, and cast through the Passe at Palemaille.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Pale Maille A game wherein a round bowle is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Pallmall A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring.
1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland viii. 121 Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life:..the croquet-balls were live hedgehogs, and the mallets live flamingoes.
1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 483/2 [Croquet] The Mallets should be light and handy; with ash shafts, and boxwood or ash heads. The heads of the mallets are of various shapes—as the dice-box, which is the most common shape; the plane-convex, the hammer-head, and the cue-shape.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice lxi She..dropped her mallet.
1876 M. M. Grant Sun-maid I. ix. 276 Bébé was the ‘crack’ mallet of the [croquet] club.
1897 Outing 30 483/1 The mallets or sticks [in polo] are generally of malacca cane.
1966 D. Miller & R. Thorp Croquet & How to Play It ii. 31 Despite all this, it is quite possible to play good croquet with indifferent mallets.
1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors viii. 66 We played..bicycle-polo on his parents' lawn, using croquet mallets and hoops and balls.
b. Music. A light hammer used for playing the vibraphone, xylophone, or similar instrument. In plural (colloquial): the instruments themselves.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > xylophone > mallet for striking
mallet1930
1930 Melody Maker Jan. 69/2 You should use at least three different ‘hardnesses’ of mallets for solo playing.
1968 Melody Maker 23 Nov. 18 Having started with four mallets right from the beginning, I found myself playing the instrument in piano style.
1988 Rhythm Oct. 28/3 I learned classical, mallets, timpani and side drum as well as drum set.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
† mallet-form n. Obsolete rare
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a1697 J. Aubrey in Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. ii. App. v. 620 His head was of a mallet forme, approved by the physiologers.
† mallet-pate n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 520 As for the mallet-pate, pig-eye Chinese.
mallet-paw n.
ΚΠ
1902 N. Howard Kiartan 50 What! Art thou mum? Old tramp, old mallet-paw [addressing Thor].
b.
mallet-shaped adj.
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1901 Notes & Queries 7 Sept. 215/1 A mallet-shaped head for driving in the stakes of the sheepfold.
1934 Burlington Mag. Apr. 187/2 A mallet-shaped vase.
1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry i. 18 Crutch, a mallet-shaped instrument..used to push sheep under in a swimming dip.
C2.
mallet finger n. Medicine a condition in which a finger is permanently flexed at the distal joint owing to rupture of the extensor tendon, often resulting from a blow to the tip of the extended finger; a finger so affected.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > of the digits
ainhum1867
toeing1871
baseball finger1873
phalangitis1877
Raynaud1883
mallet finger1894
toe-drop1899
white finger1918
1894 G. M. Gould Illustr. Dict. Med. 472/2 Mallet finger, a deformity of a finger characterized by deficient extension or undue flexion of the terminal phalanx.
1934 J. A. Key & H. E. Conwell Managem. Fractures xx. 718 (heading) Drop or mallet finger (baseball finger).
1956 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 21 July 1135 (heading) New technique for treatment of mallet fingers and fractures of distal phalanx.
1967 Punch 29 Mar. 458/3 Less heroically, women can contract Mallet Finger by ‘tucking the bed-clothes under the mattress when bed-making’.
1987 N. J. Smith & C. L. Stanitski Sports Med. x. 88 ‘Mallet’ or Baseball Finger. Being struck with a ball on the tip of a finger causes hyperflexion of the terminal interphalangeal joint.
† mallet-fish n. Obsolete a kind of hammerheaded fish (not identified: perhaps a hammerhead shark).
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Scyliorhinidae > dogfish
sea-houndc1330
houndfishc1386
hussc1440
dogfishc1450
break-net1585
sea-dog1601
rough hound1602
hound1603
mallet-fish1611
dogship1623
morgya1667
gobbag1716
bone dog1825
roussette1844
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cagnole, the rauenous, and ougly dogfish, called (of the fashion of his head) the Mallet-fish.
mallet-flower n. any of the plants constituting the genus Tupistra, of the family Convallariaceae, which are characterized by mallet-shaped stigmas and are native to northern India, Burma (Myanmar), etc.
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1891 Cent. Dict. Tupistra, a genus of liliaceous plants... There are 3 or 4 species, natives of Burma and of the Himalayas... They are known as mallet-flower.
mallet-head n. (a) the head of a mallet; (b) slang a dull-brained person, a fool.
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1707–12 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (1721) II. 59 Which Wood is useful for..Mallet-heads [etc.]..being very hard and durable.
1897 Outing 30 483/1 The mallet-head now used [in polo] is generally cigar-shaped, 2 inches thick and 8 or 9 inches long.
1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 333/1 Mallet-head,..a stupid person. Not common.
1993 Harper's Mag. Oct. 26/1 As a result of this memo, a line in the show's pilot that read ‘Dammit!! Stupid, idiot, moron, jerks!!’ was changed to ‘Dammit!! Stupid, mallet-head, brain-dead, jerks!!’
mallet-headed adj. designating a chisel made to be struck with a mallet; having a head shaped like that of a mallet.
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1906 E. Johnston Writing & Illuminating xvii. 396 The chisels are either Hammer-headed or Mallet-headed.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 5/2 The announcement made by the Rules of Golf Committee on the subject of mallet-headed clubs will have far-spreading consequences.
1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 373/4 A mallet headed cross head club.
† mallet-headed oyster n. Obsolete = hammer-oyster n. at hammer n.1 Compounds 3; cf. malleus n. 3.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Aviculidae > genus Malleus > member of
hammer-shell1712
mallet-headed oyster1753
hammer-oyster1756
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Ostrea The malleum, or brachiated oister; called the mallet-headed oister.
mallet instrument n. Music a percussion instrument, such as a metallophone, played by striking a series of bars with a small mallet.
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1950 Instrumentalist Sept. 46/1 (heading) Survey of mallet instruments.
1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Oct. 57/2 The Balinese gamelan orchestra is an ensemble of gamelans (mallet instruments resembling marimbas), gongs, drums, cymbals.
mallet-shoot n. Horticulture a mallet-shaped (vine) cutting.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
quickwoodc1383
graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
sleavingc1440
talionc1440
quick1456
quicking1469
graft1483
quickset1484
slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry iii. xvii They so planted the mallet-shoot, that some part of the old branch did stick to the young one.
1879 C. T. Lewis & C. Short Lat. Dict. Malleolus,..a mallet-shoot for planting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† malletn.2

Forms: 1600s mallet, 1800s malet (in dictionaries).
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish maleta.
Etymology: < Spanish maleta travelling-bag (1490; > U.S. regional (south-western) maleta rawhide saddlebag) < Middle French malete small bag (1294 in Old French; French mallette ) < male mail n.2 + -ete , diminutive suffix (see -et suffix1).
Obsolete. rare.
A little bag or portmanteau.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag
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1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. ix. 210 Sancho past ouer the mallet, without leauing a corner of it, or the cushion vnsearched.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

malletn.3

Brit. /ˈmalət/, U.S. /ˈmælət/, Australian English /ˈmælət/
Forms: 1800s mallat, 1800s– mallet.
Origin: A borrowing from Nyungar. Etymon: Nyungar malard.
Etymology: < Nyungar (Perth–Albany region) malard eucalyptus tree.
Any of several Western Australian eucalypts which typically have a bark rich in tannin. Also (in full mallet-bark, mallet wood): the bark of any of these trees.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding tanning solutions > [noun] > mallet tree, bark, or wood
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1837 G. F. Moore Evidences Inland Sea 49 Here we saw another variety of the Eucalyptus, called ‘Mallat’.
1897 L. Lindley-Cowen West Austral. Settler's Guide ii. ii. 215 Mallet, or fluted gum, or gimlet wood (E. salubris, F. von Mueller).
1905 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 622/1 The wattle-barks.., which are used in large quantities in Australia for tanning sheepskins, are being replaced by a material called mallet-bark.
1919 Jrnl. Amer. Leather Chemists Assoc. 14 311 The eucalypt tannins, especially mallet, may give much better results when they are used in a drum tannage, but at present they cannot be considered an important factor in the production of Australian leather.
1934 A. L. Howard Timbers of World (ed. 2) 308 Malletwood, brown, Rhodamnia argentea.., Queensland. Also known as white myrtle, blackeye, or brush turpentine... The principal uses are for mallets, heads of mauls, etc.
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World xxvii. 262/2 Because its bark has the highest tannin content of any commercial tanbark, the brown mallet..is cultivated in Australia.
1973 G. M. Chippendale Eucalypts W. Austral. Goldfields viii. 91/2 The term ‘mallet’ was applied to several tall, smooth-barked trees.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Malletn.4

Brit. /ˈmali/, /ˈmaleɪ/, U.S. /mɑˈleɪ/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mallet.
Etymology: < the name of Anatole Mallet (1837–1919), Swiss engineer, who patented aspects of the design in 1874 and 1884.
Railways.
A compound articulated steam locomotive, having a single boiler, two sets of wheels, and two engines.
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1890 W. B. Le Van Steam Engine & Indicator xiii. 302 In July, 1876, M. Anatole Mallet..introduced..his system of compound locomotives... One of the chief features of M. Mallet's system was the provision of a special arrangement of distributing valve... In M. Mallet's earlier engines..the steam from the boiler passed direct to the large cylinder.]
1939 Fortune Nov. 56/1 The Mallet pushes the ninety-odd cars of our train up the hump track at about four miles an hour.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 134 Mallets were used on logging roads where big loads were hauled on steep grades.
1992 A. A. Jackson Railway Dict. 170/1 Mallet, a steam loco with a single boiler but two sets of coupled driving wheels, the rear set rigidly mounted to the main frame, the other jointed to the main frame.
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malletv.

Brit. /ˈmalᵻt/, U.S. /ˈmælət/
Forms: 1500s malet, 1600s– mallet.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mallet n.1
Etymology: < mallet n.1 Compare slightly earlier malleted adj.
transitive. To beat or hammer (as) with a mallet; (also figurative, Army slang) to reprimand severely, crush utterly.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > driving or beating tools
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staple gun1960
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. sig. C2 My head is full of hammers, & they haue so maletted my wit, that I am almost a malcontent.
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 108 They Malletted him with their cruell Fists; as if he had bin Brasse indeede.
c1840 E. B. Barrett Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) I. iii. 19 Your Elizabethan fashion of malleting down your metaphors..produces a diction of extraordinary power.
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. 191 Pointing the stakes, and dumping and malleting them into the ground.
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang (at cited word) Malleted, told off by an Officer.
1983 R. McGowan & J. Hands Don't cry for Me iv. 81 The Special Air Service described a similar scene [sc. the disposal of an enemy position]..as having been ‘malletted’.
1992 Crime Beat Jan. 41/1 She opened the door..and was malleted on the back of the head with an aluminium baseball bat.
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