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  2. Mallet - Wikipedia

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    A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head. General overview [ edit ]

  3. Gavel - Wikipedia

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    A gavel is a small ceremonial mallet commonly made of hardwood, typically fashioned with a handle.It can be used to call for attention or to punctuate rulings and proclamations and is a symbol of the authority and right to act officially in the capacity of a presiding officer. [1]

  4. Uchide no kozuchi - Wikipedia

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    Aladdin's lamp. "Aladdin's Mallet" is one rendition of uchide-no-kozuchi. [4]Cornucopia, the horn of plenty.; Mjölnir, the Norse god Thor's magic hammer; One interpretation of the Sampo, in Finnish mythology, is that of a hand-mill that can produce infinite amounts of at least some goods.

  5. Percussion mallet - Wikipedia

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    Mallet bag showing variety of mallets. A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound. The term beater is slightly more general. A mallet is normally held in the hand while a beater may be a foot or mechanically operated, for example in a bass drum pedal. The term drum stick is ...

  6. Hammerspace - Wikipedia

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    A cartoon character producing an object from nowhere - from "hammerspace" Hammerspace (also known as malletspace) is an imaginary extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area in fiction, which is used to explain how characters from animation, comics, and video games can produce objects out of thin air.

  7. Soft-faced hammer - Wikipedia

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    Soft faced hammer or mallet with plastic faces. A soft-faced hammer or mallet is a hammer designed to offer driving force without damaging surfaces. They also reduce the force transmitted back to the arm or hand of the user, by temporarily deforming more than a metal hammer would.

  8. Mazzatello - Wikipedia

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    Then, the mallet would be raised, swung through the air to gain momentum, and then brought down on the head of the prisoner, similar to a contemporary method of slaughtering cattle in stockyards. [2] The condemned was usually knocked unconscious [4] rather than being killed instantly, so the throat of the prisoner would then be slit with a ...

  9. Mallet locomotive - Wikipedia

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    A Mallet locomotive is a type of compound articulated steam locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919). The front of the locomotive is articulated on a bogie . The compound steam system fed steam at boiler pressure to high-pressure cylinders driving the rear set of driving wheels (rigidly connected to the boiler).