Noun

(en noun)

An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.

* {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

(Addison)

A heavy blow.

(Spenser)

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.

(Cotton)

A place where the game of mall was played.

A public walk; a level shaded walk.

* Southey

Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall .

(US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

pedestrian mall

* 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t , page 179,

America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall' opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian ' malls , it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.

An enclosed shopping centre.

* 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well , unnumbered page,

Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America?s enclosed shopping malls .

* 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies , unnumbered page,

In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.