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- The game of mall was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles the Second, and the walk in Saint James's Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been appropriated to the purpose of playing at mall, where Charles himself and his courtiers frequently exercised themselves in the practice of this pastime. The denomination mall given to the game, is evidently derived from the mallet or wooden hammer used by the players to strike the ball. (en)
- Palemaille : f. A game, wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet strucke through a high arch of yron which he that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the nu[m]ber agreed on, winnes. (en)
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