Mall

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A heavy blow.

II. Mall ·noun A court of justice.

III. Mall ·noun A place where justice is administered.

IV. Mall ·noun A place where public meetings are held.

V. Mall ·noun A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

VI. Mall ·noun A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.

VII. Mall ·noun An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. ·see Pall-mall.

VIII. Mall ·vt To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to Bruise; to Maul.

IX. Mall ·noun Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.