Associations to the word «Martel»

Wiktionary

MARTEL, noun. A hammer, especially a war hammer.
MARTEL, verb. (obsolete) To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer.
MARTEL DE FER, noun. A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed, used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armour.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats