EGAVE

mace

About 1.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A heavy fighting club.
  2. noun A ceremonial form of this weapon.
  3. noun A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
  4. noun An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
  5. noun A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
  6. noun A flail.
  7. noun A billiard cue.
  8. verb To hit someone or something with a mace.

Similar words

macer macebearer truncheon baton laundering kara gas bomb petrific mass

Often followed by

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Word family

Mace Maces maced maces macing

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