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| Mall |
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. |
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| Mall |
A heavy blow. |
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| Mall |
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. |
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| Mall |
A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. |
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| Mall |
To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul. |
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| Pall-mall |
A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. |
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