The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mammet \Mam"met\, n. [See Mawmet.]
An idol; a puppet; a doll. [Obs.]
--Selden.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A false god; an idol. (13th-17th c.) 2 A doll or puppet; a lifeless figure, an effigy, a scarecrow. (from 15th c.)
Usage examples of "mammet".
In May 1690 a new bride, Marie de Neubourg, was brought to the grisly side of the crowned mammet of Spain.
Many trees have been used: the saman, bread fruit, mango, mammet, sand box, pois doux, rubber, etc.
They brought the word back to England, where it became corrupted into mammet or mommet and was used to describe a small image or doll.
They make waxen mammets from this consecrated candle to work their evil.
Edward Brand a-making of clay mammets in the likeness of divers gentlemen of the neighbourhood and their ladies and putting them to dry in the sun.
Then the said Joanna, being curious to see what was done with the said mammets, went privily to the back of the house and so entered.
When she could not see the said mammets in any of the rooms she went down into the cellar and there found them with many others.