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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope