martel

From Middle English martel, from Old French martel (modern French marteau), from Late Latin martellus, from Latin martulus, a variant of marculus (“small hammer”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːtəl/

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martel (plural martels)

1. A hammer, especially a war hammer.

• (medieval hammer-like weapon): pole hammer, war hammer

martel (third-person singular simple present martels, present participle martelling, simple past and past participle martelled)

1. (obsolete) To strike a blow with, or as with, a hammer.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     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

• Martel (surname)

• Tramel, armlet, malter, tramel

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• Rhymes: -ɑrtəl

martel

1. first-person singular present indicative of martelen
2. imperative of martelen

martel m (plural martels)

1. Archaic spelling of marteau.

• se mettre martel en tête

• “martel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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martel m (plural martels)

1. (Jersey) cognac

• couongnac

From Late Latin martellus, from Latin martulus, variant of Latin marculus.

martel m (oblique plural marteaus or marteax or martiaus or martiax or martels, nominative singular marteaus or marteax or martiaus or martiax or martels, nominative plural martel)

1. hammer (tool)

• marteler

• French: marteau; se mettre martel en tête
  • → Algerian Arabic: مارطو‎ (marṭu)
• → English: martel
• → Dutch: martel
• Norman: marté (Jersey)
• Walloon: mårtea