mall vs mallet

mall

verb
  • to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise 

  • to build up with the development of shopping malls 

  • to shop at the mall 

noun
  • A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. 

  • A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. 

  • A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. 

  • An enclosed shopping centre. 

mallet

verb
  • To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet. 

noun
  • A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. 

  • A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments. 

  • The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo. 

  • A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger. 

  • A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet. 

How often have the words mall and mallet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )