1. A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways.
2. A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles.
3. A shady public walk or promenade.
4. chiefly upstate new york see median strip. see regional note at neutral ground.
5. variant of maul.

1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
2. A heavy blow.
3. an old game played with malls or mallets and balls. see pall mall
4. A place where the game of mall was played.
5. A public walk; a level shaded walk.
6. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
7. an enclosed shopping centre.

1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
2. A heavy blow.
3. an old game played with malls or mallets and balls. see pall-mall.
4. A place where the game of mall was played. hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
5. A court of justice.
6. A place where justice is administered.
7. A place where public meetings are held.
8. A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians.
9. the paved or grassy strip between two roadways.
10. A shopping area with multiple shops and a concourse for predominantly or exclusively pedestrian use; in cities the concourse is usually a city street which may be temporarily or permamently closed to motor vehicles; in suburban areas, a mall is often located on a convenient highway, may be large, contained in one building or in multiple buildings connected by (usually covered) walkways. also called shopping mall
11. to beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

1. to beat, especially with a mall or mallet; bruise.
2. A heavy hammer or club of any sort; especially, a heavy wooden hammer used by carpenters. compare mallet and beetle, 1.
3. A war-hammer or martel-de-fer.
4. the head or striking part of a war-hammer or martel-de-fer.
5. the blunt or square projection of such a hammer, as distinguished from the beak on the opposite side of the handle: this blunt end was often divided into four, six, or more blunt points or protuberances.
6. an old game played with a wooden ball in a kind of smooth alley boarded in at each side, in which the ball was struck with a mallet in order to send it through an iron arch called the pass, placed at the end of the alley.
7. the mallet with which this game was played; also, the alley in which it was played.
8. [⟨ mall, verb] A blow.
9. A public walk; a level shaded walk.
10. A court: same as mallum, mallus.

1. a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
2. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace