They had discovered a box of croquet mallets on their way downstairs, and borrowed one each.
The watcher remains in the hut all day long, while his companions are at work in the field; he varies the monotony of his task by shouting and beating with a pair of mallets on a hollow wooden cylinder.
Carver's mallets are often turned from one piece, hammer and head on one axis.
Hammers should be used to hit iron only; for hitting wood, mallets are used.
With balls and mallets of the standard size, there is no necessity for using both hands.
A variety of mallets should be provided, as different players prefer different sizes.
For the purpose of being cleaned, they must be braided and again steeped for one day, and then beaten with mallets upon a bench, and the maceration and beating must be repeated until the fibres become clean.
It has been reported for mallets and mauls, but since it is not very well suited for those articles, the conclusion is that those who so report it have confused it with black gum which it resembles in the living tree, but not much in the wood.
Skewers are made of it in North Carolina, and billiard cues and mallets in Massachusetts.
Black gum mallets for stone masons and woodworkers are in the market.
Again the mallets beat the wood in the ascending scale of the call.
As the Americans eyed the arrangement in perplexity, one of the crew picked up from the bow of the canoe a pair of mallets the heads of which were wrapped in hide.
More blows were struck, curses rose from the panting chests of those who still had wind to spare, and Smoke, curiously visioning the face of Joy Gastell, hoped that the mallets would not be brought into play.
Also, forty-five stakes were thrust into the snow, and the same number of mallets lifted in the air.
Collector sharply, his eye travelling towards the lawn where mallets were being chosen and all seemed in train for a social hour.
He glanced towards the lawn where more than one game was now in progress, elderly couples poising their mallets with an air of enjoyment, the crack of the boxwood balls sounding in the clear air as they were skilfully driven to their goal.
This native cloth was made by pounding the fine bark of certain trees with wooden mallets until the fibres were beaten and ground into a wood pulp.
It is probable that the practice of beating tapa with wooden mallets led to the discovery of printing in colours.
He cometh anigh the serjeants of copper, and they cease to strike at once, and hold their iron mallets quite still.
The Voice warneth him that he make them all pass through the entrance of the gateway there where the men with the iron mallets are, for there may he well prove which of them are willing to believe in God and which not.
Ay, sir, my heart laughs in my body when we've bravely laboured at the staves with jointer and adze and have gotten a brave cask in the vice; and then when my journeymen swing their mallets and down it comes on the drivers clipp!
As long as this gracious lady honours us with her presence, let mallets and drivers rest.
The old man and he then struck alternately with their mallets upon the head of the iron, till the root began to gape and crack on every side, and the iron was totally buried in the wood.
The cloth and mallets were for sale, but no inducement would persuade her to part with the necklace.
The mallets and hoops bruised us from our head to our feet; and the contents of my basket were utterly ruined.
Alice to see that the balls, hoops, and mallets were all right in numbers and colours, &c.
Tourteaux, according to Bigot, are made in the following manner: Old cords or pieces of match are beaten with mallets to take out the dirt, and prepare them to receive the composition.
The formation of pasteboard for cases, the mode of forming as well as charging cases, different modes of charging rockets, the dimensions of rammers, mallets &c.
The wooden rammer may be struck with metal; but when the rammer is of copper or brass, wooden mallets must be always employed.
The mallets and chisels were executing a blithe staccato movement in the yard below, and making the sparks dance.
Mallets and Gavels The biggest source of trouble in these models is getting the handles to fit true.
The operation of ploughing breaks up the soil, while the rough clods may be broken by hand mallets or by the use of the "hengha"--a piece of tree boll harnessed at the ends to a pair of bullocks.
There was a little confusion of unblanketing and mounting, and eight riders armed with long mallets rode forward.
A single one of the newMallets will do the work of the two pushers, and therein lies the economy in their use.
It is steeped in water, and beat into cloth with wooden mallets by the women, and afterwards dyed of various colours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mallets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
