A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
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I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]
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1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: