mallet

She used a mallet to pound a metal tube into the rocky sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Alternatively, use a meat mallet to flatten and add a pattern to the cookies.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

"It's so hard to do, number one. Number two, my back and my neck from swinging that hammer around, or mallet, I think it's called, if you're in the know, it's polo language."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024

She selected a spoon-tipped chisel and a mallet, then gave the block the same searching look she’d given him a few minutes ago—as if she were trying to read some secret message below its surface.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

At St. Anne School in Santa Monica, I watched Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

As three people struck wood with mallets under a viaduct in Queens during the morning rush hour one day in the fall, a man walked up and asked, “What do you call this music?”

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.

From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024

Instead of using traditional “wedges, mallets and jimmies,” Walling wrote, Leslie went for a more clever and quiet approach.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2023

Another errand took him to Ruck’s Creek, called “Knocker’s Hole,” because all day you could hear the thump, thump, thump of the caulker’s mallets, caulking the seams of ships.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham