mall vs malleate

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. 

malleate

verb
  • To beat into shape with a hammer. 

adj
  • Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer. 

  • Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered. 

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