Wiktionary
n. (context sports English) The wooden mallet used in croquet to strike the ball
WordNet
n. a mallet used to strike the ball in croquet
Usage examples of "croquet mallet".
I got a little bit tiddly, pretended to be a good deal more, and brought out in my conversation that I knew about the burnt croquet mallet, about him and Cosmo going downstairs that night and about Rudolf's car in the car - park at Folkover.
Whatever it was, it will be him - she's sure of that much - and she is afraid she will exact a terrible punishment for the thing he did, no matter how serious or trivial that thing was: she will raise the croquet mallet and drive it into his face, smashing his nose and knocking out his teeth, and when he falls down on the grass the dogs will come and eat him up.
You're driving a post into the turf, using a croquet mallet for a hammer.
I dropped my croquet mallet and hugged myself, pretending to shiver in fright.
The truth of the matter was that it was Lawrence who had murdered Alfred Inglethorp with a croquet mallet.
His fingers moved nervously up and down the ridges on the croquet mallet.
Ramses wondered idly how they could walk, much less swing a croquet mallet.