Mallet

A mallet is a construction worker's tool. It is a hammer with a large head (stop snickering), which is usually composed of either wood or rubber, depending upon its usage. A rubber-headed mallet is ideal for pounding out large surface areas such as sheet metal, without leaving scars or indentations. A wooden mallet is mostly used a carpenter's tool for hammering in dowels.

The douchey yuppie yard game known as Croquet employs a mallet with a longer shaft (again, stop snickering), which the user grips with both hands and knocks some balls around (you're just not going to stop, are you?).

Appearances

 * Shining, The (1997): In the TV version of The Shining, Mister Ullman shows Jack Torrence a Croquet court. Later, when Jack goes insane, he stomps through the Overlook Hotel in search of his son Danny while carrying a mallet, which he intends on using to beat him to death (in the original film, Jack carried an axe, not a mallet).


 * Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The: A mallet is one of several tools seen in the Lee Bros. Meat Processing Plant. The Hewitt family also possesses several mallets and other such items, which they wield for reasons other than their intended use.