Pall-mall

(pĕl-mĕl'), n. [Written also pall-mail and pell-mell.] [O. Fr. palemail, It. pallamaglio, from palla, a ball, and maglio, Fr. & Pr. mail, Eng. mall, from Lat. malleus, a hammer, mallet, maul.]

1. A game once common in England, but now disused, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet or club through an arch or ring of iron placed at the end of a walk. The person who drove the ball through the ring by the fewest blows, or by a number agreed on, was the winner. The name was also applied to the mallet used, and to the walk or place where the game occurred. Digby. Evelyn.
2. A street in London, so called from its having once been the place for playing the game called pall-mall.