martel

From Middle English martel, from Old French martel m (modern French marteau m), from Late Latin martellus m, from Latin martulus m, a variant of marculus m (“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:

     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. inflection of martelen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

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martel m (plural martels)

1. archaic form of marteau

• se mettre martel en tête

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

Denominal verb of martell.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.tɛl/

martel (imperfect jmartel, verbal noun tmartil)

1. alternative form of mmartella: to hammer

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martel m (plural martels)

1. (Jersey) cognac

• couongnac

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

martel oblique singular, 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

• Middle French: marteau m
  • French: marteau m
    • → Algerian Arabic: مارطو m (marṭu)
• Norman: marté m (Jersey)
• Walloon: mårtea m
• → Middle English: martel
  • English: martel
• → Dutch: martel