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A bootikin was a wood and iron boot used in torture to extract confessions from the victim. Wooden wedges were hammered between the leg and the boot with a mallet so as to crush the victims bone.
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German Tinder, or amadou is prepared from the Boletus fomentarius, a fungus growing on the oak, birch, and some other trees, or from the Boletus igniarius found on the willow, cherry, plum, and other trees. The fungus is removed with a sharp knife, washed, boiled in a strong solution of saltpetre, beaten with a mallet, and dried. In surgery it was sometimes used to stop local bleeding.
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James Thomson was a British poet. He was born in 1700 at Ednam, Roxburghshire and died in 1748. Educated at Edinburgh University with a view to following his father into the ministry he changed his mind and in 1725 settled in London where he wrote a series of four poems known as 'The Seasons'. Many of his other poems and plays were failures, but with Mallet in 1740 he wrote 'The Masque of Alfred' which contains the lyrics 'Rule Britannia'.
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A club hammer is a type of mallet with a large metal head, typically weighing a little over one kilogram, used for driving chisels.
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A mallet is a large and heavy hammer, usually made of wood.
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Open Heart is a medical drama starring Megan Follows, Raoul Bhaneja, Joseph Ziegler, Nicole Mallet and Roxanne Jean in a story about patients dying at an under-funded hospital. Open Heart was directed by Laurie Lynd in 2004.
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Bicycle polo is a form of polo adapted to the use of bicycles instead of ponies. Like polo, it is a team game in which the object is to score goals by driving a ball up field and between the opposing team's goal posts using a long-handled mallet.
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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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Polo is a four-a-side game with players mounted on horses who use wooden mallets to strike a wooden ball in an attempt to score goals. The ball is struck with the side of the mallet, and horses of any size may be used. The full sized ground is 300 yards long and 200 yards wide if unboarded and 160 yards wide if boarded. The boards on the side are nine inches high and designed to keep the ball in play.
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Polo Crosse is a team game played on horseback, created by combining some elements of Polo with some of lacrosse. It was first played at the National School of Equitation in England in 1939, with a weapon formed by splicing a tennis racket on to the end of a polo mallet and replacing the tight strings of the racket with loose ones, subsequently special equipment was made with the operative end resembling a lacrosse net. The game died out in Britain soon after the Second World War, but spread to Australia and New Zealand, and later to the USA, Canada and South Africa.
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