Dictionary of troublesome word. Bill Bryson. 2013.
pall-mall, pell-mell — The first was a game popular in the eighteenth century. A favored site for playing it later became the London street Pall Mall. For the act of moving crazily or in haste, the word is pell mell. All versions of the word, including Pall Mall,… … Dictionary of troublesome word
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pall-mall — , pell mell The first was a game popular in the eighteenth century. A favored site for playing it later became the London street Pall Mall. For the act of moving crazily or in haste, the word is pell mell. All versions of the word, including… … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
pell-mell — Pall mall Pall mall , n. [OF. palemail, It. pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. malleus. See 1st {Ball}, and {Mall} a beetle.] A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pall-mall — n. [OF. palemail, It. pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. malleus. See 1st {Ball}, and {Mall} a beetle.] A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through a … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pell-mell — n. See {Pall mall}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pell mell — obs. form of pall mall … Useful english dictionary
Pall-Mall — (engl., spr. Pell Mell), 1) so v.w. Mail 1); 2) große, mit Alleen von hohen Bäumen besetzte Straßen in England, den Niederlanden u. Niederdeutschland, so genannt, weil sie ehedem zu Maillebahnen dienten, 3) so v.w. Pêlemêle … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
pall-mall — /pel mel , pal mal , pawl mawl /, n. 1. a game, popular in the 17th century, in which a ball of boxwood was struck with a mallet in an attempt to drive it through a raised iron ring at the end of a playing alley. 2. a playing alley on which this… … Universalium
