carpenter's mallet

Definitions of carpenter's mallet
  1. noun
    a short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge
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    type of:
    beetle, mallet
    a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
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