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mal·let
 mallet
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- pronunciation:
- mae
liht
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A mallet is something you hold in your hand and use to hit something else. It has a handle and usually a round head or a head shaped like a cylinder. It may be a kind of hammer with a large head that is used as a tool, or it mally ay be something to hit the ball with in certain games, or it may be the thing you hold in your hand when you hit the keys on a xylophone.
The musician picked up the mallets and began to play the xylophone.You hit the ball with a mallet in the game of croquet.
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hammer |
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