Mallets

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Mallets in sculpture

A mallet , formerly Schlegel is a device or tool for whipping.

Word origin

Mallet and Schlegel derived from althochdeutsch  slegil  , tool for whipping 'over medium high German  slegel from. The term has a related meaning to flail , but also to club . The 1996 reform of German spelling stipulated the spelling on mallets because the root of the word is punch (as opposed to the chicken leg).

Tools

Beaten ridges with prunes

Mallet specifically stands for several hand tools . So for the club-shaped wooden hammer in the sculpture is common for carving and also as Knüpfel (clapper) is called. A percussion hammer (with a square cross-section and wooden handle) used in mining, such as the Fäustel ( fist hammer), also bears this name (see also mallets and irons ). According to the mining terminology includes hammer and chisel to gezähe of the miner.

From other trades, this name has been handed down for special hammers, such as for flail -like devices for breaking the flax . A splitting ax , i.e. an ax with a heavy, wide - hammer-shaped - head, is called a flail hoe or a mösel .

More word usage

Individual evidence

  1. mallet, m. tool to hit. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 339-344 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. Horst Naumann (ed.): Family name book . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1989, p. 261 f .
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  5. mallet 1 e). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 341 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  6. mallet 1 f). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 341 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  7. Pickaxe. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 344 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  8. Mallet 1 b) club, as a weapon. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 340 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  9. mallet 1 d). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 341 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  10. mallet 1 g). In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 341–342 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).