As nouns the difference between mallet and mallei
is that
mallet is a type of articulated locomotive, in which there are two powered trucks, with the rear truck being rigidly attached to the main body and boiler of the locomotive, while the front powered truck is attached to the rear by a hinge, so that it may swing from side to side, and with the front end of the boiler resting upon a sliding bearing on the swinging front truck while
mallei is .
As a proper noun mallet
is (cryptography) often the malicious party in examples of threat scenarios (synonym: mallory) see (
alice and bob).