Mall

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. Addison.

2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. Cotton.

4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall. Southey.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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. Hence:

2. A court of justice.

3. A place where justice is administered.

4. A place where public meetings are held. Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased. Milman.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.