Mall /(ma̤l; 277)/

1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
2. A heavy blow. [Obs.]
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.

   Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.

imp. & p. p. Malled; p. pr. & vb. n. Malling

1. To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

1. Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.

   Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.

1. A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.
2. The paved or grassy strip between two roadways.
3. 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