a large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.-a heavy blow.-an old game played with malls or mallets and balls. see pall-mall.-a place where the game of mall was played. hence: a public walk; a level shaded walk.-to beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.-formerly, among teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.-a court of justice.-a place where justice is administered.-a place where public meetings are held.