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a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike percussion instruments a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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| mallet |
a specialized tree growth form found only in Western Australia, having slender erect stems and steeply angled branches but lacking the regenerative structures found in many other eucalypts, viz. lignotubers and epicormic buds
Ãâó: www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/Euclid/sample/html/gl...
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| mallet finger |
Injury of the finger tip in which the extension tendon is avulsed off the distal phalanx.
Ãâó: sportsmedicine.about.com/library/glossary/blglossa...
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| mallet |
One of the three small bones in the middle ear; shaped like a hammer, attached to the eardrum and the incus; starts a rocking motion along the ossicles.
Ãâó: www.sparkle.usu.edu/glossary/hearing_glossary.asp
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| mallet |
A tool usually made of sturdy hard wood with a metal-reinforced striking surface; used to flatten thin cuts of meat or poultry and for cracking the shells of cooked crabs and lobsters.
Ãâó: www.chinesefood-recipes.com/glossary_of_cooking_te...
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