martel

¹ American  

[mahr-tel, mahr-tel] / ˈmɑr tɛl, mɑrˈtɛl /

noun

1. a hammerlike, shafted weapon having a head with a point at one end and a blunt face at the other.

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Martel ² American  

[mahr-tel, mar-tel] / mɑrˈtɛl, marˈtɛl /

noun

1. Charles. Charles Martel.

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Martel British  

/ mɑːˈtɛl /

noun

1. See Charles Martel

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Etymology

Origin of martel

1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *martellus, diminutive of Latin martulus, marculus hammer

Example Sentences

How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 Topics: LA Review of Books, Life of Pi, yann martel, , Ang Lee, Fiction, Oscars News, , , This article originally appeared on the L.A.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2013

The whole story will have to go through Parliament House, and I shall be high-treasoned—as safe as houses—and be fined, and who'll pay for a poor martel!

From Desperate Remedies by Hardy, Thomas

The martel had one part of the head with a blunted face, the other pointed, but occasionally both sides were pointed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

If ’tis Pedals for two martel hours of practice I never complain; and he has plenty of vagaries. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas

The slim-faced martel had knocked ’em down to me because I nodded to en in my friendly way; and I had to pay for ’em too. 

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas