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CARPENTER'S MALLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("carpenter's mallet" is a kind of...):
beetle; mallet (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)