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Molle vs Malle - What's the difference?

molle | malle |

As an adjective molle

is flat; lowered by a semitone.

As a noun malle is

a heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.

molle

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (music, obsolete) flat; lowered by a semitone
    • B molle
    E molle
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    malle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * maul, mall, and mawle.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
  • * 1786 : The is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 52.
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