Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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name
The malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: Mallory
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noun
A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: games
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noun
The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A type of articulated locomotive having two powered trucks, with the rear truck being rigidly attached to the main body and boiler of the locomotive, while the front powered truck is attached to the rear by a hinge, so that it may swing from side to side, and with the front end of the boiler resting upon a sliding bearing on the swinging front truck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: beetle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hammer
Narrower terms: carpenter's mallet, gavel
noun
a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hammer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: drumstick
noun
a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sports implement
Narrower terms: croquet mallet, polo mallet, polo stick
History
Cryptographic scenarios use archetypal characters with standard names chosen to remember their role: Mallet was derived from "malicious" and "man-in-the-middle attack", as well as the tool mallet.
From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).
Derived from the name of the inventor, Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet.
Across languages
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
