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Answer for the clue "Polo piece ", 6 letters:
mallet

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Mallet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706), French cartographer and engineer Alexandre Mallet (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player Anatole Mallet (1837–1919), Swiss mechanical engineer Sir Bernard ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French maillet "mallet, small wooden hammer, door-knocker," diminutive of mail , from Latin malleus "a hammer," from PIE *mal-ni- , from root *mel- (1) "soft," with derivatives referring to softened material and tools for grinding (cognates: ...

Usage examples of mallet.

Mallet strode five paces behind the big Napan woman, Spindle trotting at his heels, followed by Antsy, with Trotts a dozen paces back as rearguard.

Gruntle saw other Bridgeburners behind them: Blend, Mallet, Antsy, Spindle, Bluepearl.

Paran, Spindle, Blend, Antsy, Mallet and Bluepearl sat at the one nearest the blazing hearth, barely managing a word among them.

These signatures were all written by Mallet, and he drew up a decree in the name of the Senate, and signed by the same Senators, appointing himself Governor of Paris, and commander of the troops of the first military division.

The banners of Bridgewater, of Shepton Mallet, and of Nether Stowey swept past us, with that of the fishers of Clovelly and the quarrymen of the Blackdowns.

A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog.

If she did not raise her mallet and smash it down on the punny within a heartbeat, the cane would come down with no less violence on her back.

She looked after us, stunned as if Whipper had struck her between the eyes with a mallet.

On the rings of a rack made of a nailed leather strap were hung awls, mallets, hammers, irons to cut the vellum, and roughing chisels of bogwood, which were used to smooth the threads as fast as they were employed.

And with every stroke of his mallet, he winced as if in pain, as if meting out such violence mutilated his deepest self and caused him agony.

Several times I met him in various parts of the valley, and, invariably, whenever he descried me, he came running after me with his mallet and chisel, flourishing them about my face as if he longed to begin.

Nearby, in another spot of shade, a brace of other braves squatted, industriously knapping gunflints from a core of the rock, smoothing and perfecting their creations by use of antler picks and small, heavy mallets.

Alfors and Kors came roaring at him from the barn, the one swinging a heavy mallet, the other a long saw.

I checked my thatching and twine and mallet and nails, and began sliding across the ridgepole toward the hole.

In Paris, the Maillotins swore on their mallets an oath of collective resistance to tax- collectors.