Mallet

Not to be confused with gavel, hammer, or sledgehammer.
For other uses, see Mallet (disambiguation).
Rubber mallets
A wooden mallet
Stonemason's mallets of plastic, wood and steel
An iron mallet with copper faces. Solid head copper mallets are produced with a round or square head
An aluminum meat mallet, for tenderizing meat
Meat mallet.
Cooking mallet for crushing crops.
Indian cobbler tool kit, with an iron mallet

A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head.