The Probert Encyclopaedia of Recreation

PALE-MAIL

Pale-mail, also known as pall-mall or pall mall, was an old game in which the object was to drive an iron ball called a pall, with a mallet or club called a mall, through a hoop elevated on a pole, the players standing at either end of an aley. He who succeeded in sending the ball through in the fewest strokes was the winner. The name was also applied to the alley or place where the game was played, hence Pall Mall in London.
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