Axe and Mallet

Axe

Axe noun - An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.

Mallet and axe are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mallet" instead a noun "Axe".

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

Axe and mallet are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Axe" instead a noun "Mallet".

Nearby Word: malleus

Both words in one sentence

  • Drop the Hammer 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.
  • Manga / Violinist of Hameln: Shchelkunchik BFG: The String Sisters - one has a giant mallet, the other has a giant axe.
  • Drop the Hammer Sion also swaps his axe for a huge mallet in his Hextech Sion skin.
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