Mall: Definition and part of speech

Mall

  1. n. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
  2. n. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
  3. n. A heavy blow.
  4. n. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
  5. n. A place where justice is administered.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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