0 a tool like a hammer with a large, flat end made of wood or rubber: --
1 a hammer with a large, flat end made of wood or rubber --
They are known for incorporating electric effects, turntables, piano, and mallet percussion.
The end of the inside mallet is held with little finger, and outside mallet is held between index and middle finger.
Rather than containing a clapper, "bonsh" are struck from the outside, using either a hand-held mallet or a beam suspended on ropes.
Modern pathological examination confirms the probably fatal use of a mallet on some, but not all the gladiator skulls found in a gladiators' cemetery.
The heaviest blows may be as much as half a tonne, which is like being hit by a 12 lb padded wooden mallet travelling at 20 mph.
A farmer who is probably living four miles from any village and ten miles from the nearest mallet town, might find himself having a 28-mile turn-round for petrol.
My reason for saying that was that this would really be taking a large mallet in order to crush a very small gnat.
Some cases will require a little titivating and others a little chiselling, but in others they require a mallet.
