Mallet vs Beater - What's the difference?
mallet | beater |
A type of hammer with a larger than usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.
A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 51:
A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.
Someone or something that beats.
A kitchen implement for mixing.
A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
A man who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, often working in a group.
A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
(US, informal) An automobile in poor operating condition.
As nouns the difference between mallet and beater
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 beater is someone or something that beats or beater can be (us|informal) a sleeveless undershirt.As a proper noun mallet
is (cryptography) often the malicious party in examples of threat scenarios (synonym: mallory) see (alice and bob).mallet
English
(wikipedia mallet)Noun
(en noun)- The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form.