MALL

noun a heavy blow.

2. mall ·noun a court of justice.

3. mall ·noun a place where justice is administered.

4. mall ·noun a place where public meetings are held.

5. mall ·noun a large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

6. mall ·noun a place where the game of mall was played. hence: a public walk; a level shaded walk.

7. mall ·noun an old game played with malls or mallets and balls. ·see pall-mall.

8. mall ·vt to beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

9. mall ·noun 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.