carpenter's mallet

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   a short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge

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Questions about carpenter's mallet

What does carpenter's mallet mean?

carpenter's mallet means "a short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge".

Is carpenter's mallet a common word?

carpenter's mallet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.