CARPENTER'S MALLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpenter's mallet mean? 

• CARPENTER'S MALLET (noun)
  The noun CARPENTER'S MALLET has 1 sense:

1. a short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge

  Familiarity information: CARPENTER'S MALLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPENTER'S MALLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("carpenter's mallet" is a kind of...):

beetle; mallet (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)