Definition of mall

• n. - A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
• n. - A heavy blow.
• n. - An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
• n. - A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
• v. t. - To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A court of justice.
• n. - A place where justice is administered.
• n. - A place where public meetings are held.