Axe
Axe noun - An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
Mallet
Mallet 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.
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Synonyms for Mallet
Nearby Word: malleus
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The Shining's Jack Torrance is well known for being Ax-Crazy with an actual axe, but his weapon when he finally goes nutso in the original Stephen King novel is a croquet mallet.
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BFG: The String Sisters - one has a giant mallet, the other has a giant axe.
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Sion also swaps his axe for a huge mallet in his Hextech Sion skin.
Source: Drop the Hammer
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