pall-mall

1. 1.

   a 17th century game; a wooden ball was driven along an alley with a mallet

   Broadergame

Questions about pall-mall

What does pall-mall mean?

pall-mall means "a 17th century game; a wooden ball was driven along an alley with a mallet".

How many syllables are in pall-mall?

pall-mall has 2 syllables and divides as pall--mall under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pall-mall a common word?

pall-mall 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.