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plural martels
A hammer, especially a war hammer. examples
third-person singular simple present martels, present participle martelling, simple past and past participle martelled
(obsolete) To strike a blow with, or as with, a hammer. quotations
Her dreadfull weapon she to him addrest, Which on his helmet martelled so hard That made him low incline his lofty crest, And bowd his battred visour to his brest
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie