mallet

A wooden hammer, of which there are several sorts.

♦ A caulking mallet is employed to drive the oakum into the seams of a ship. The head of this mallet is long, cylindrical, and hooped with iron.

♦ Serving mallet. A cylindrical piece of wood with a groove on one side and a handle on the other. It is used in serving the rigging, binding the spun yarn more firmly about it than could be done by hand.

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caulking-mallet
The wooden beetle or instrument with which the caulking-irons are driven. ...

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serving-mallet
The mallet, grooved on the under side, with which spun-yarn, or other small stuff, is wrapped tightl...

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