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Mall   /mɔl/   Listen
noun
Mall  n.  (Written also maul)  
1.
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
2.
A heavy blow. (Obs.)
3.
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
4.
A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. "Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall."



Mall  n.  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. Hence:
(a)
A court of justice.
(b)
A place where justice is administered.
(c)
A place where public meetings are held. "Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased."



Mall  n.  
1.
A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.
2.
The paved or grassy strip between two roadways.
3.
A shopping area with multiple shops and a concourse for predominantly or exclusively pedestrian use; in cities the concourse is usually a city street which may be temporarily or permamently closed to motor vehicles; in suburban areas, a mall is often located on a convenient highway, may be large, contained in one building or in multiple buildings connected by (usually covered) walkways. Also called shopping mall



Maul  n.  (Written also mall)  A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.



verb
Mall  v. t.  (past & past part. malled; pres. part. malling)  To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mall" Quotes from Famous Books



... a moon-lit night between half-past eleven and twelve. Ryder Street had roused to life with a widely-spaced but steady stream of men returning to bed from Pall Mall and sparing the fag-end of their attention for the unexpected tall girl who stood wrapped in a long silk shawl in the shadow of a bachelor door-way. The brougham turned round and drove ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna

... so I went to-day with my new wig, o hoao, to visit Lady Worsley, whom I had not seen before, although she was near a month in town. Then I walked in the Park to find Mr. Ford, whom I had promised to meet, and coming down the Mall, who should come towards me but Patrick, and gives me five letters out of his pocket. I read the superscription of the first, Pshoh, said I; of the second, pshoh again; of the third, pshah, pshah, pshah; of the fourth, a gad, a gad, a gad, I am in a rage; of the fifth and last, O ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various

... this pleasant, reckless, velvet-soft rush down-hill—in this club-palace, with every luxury that the heart of man can devise and desire, yours to command at your will—it is hard work, then, to grasp the truth that the crossing-sweeper yonder, in the dust of Pall Mall, is really not more utterly in the toils of ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

... bow-kail runt, Was brunt wi' primsie Mallie; An' Mallie, nae doubt, took the drunt, To be compar'd to Willie; Mall's nit lap out wi' pridefu' fling, An' her ain fit it brunt it; While Willie lap, and swoor, by jing, 'Twas just the way he ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... one among many examples," says Prof. Chamberlain, "the ingenious Traveling Commissioner of the Pall Mall Gazette, Mr. Henry Norman, in his lively letters on Japan published nine or ten years ago, tells the story of Japanese education under the fetching title of 'A Nation at School'; but the impression left is that they ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick


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