Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Malleatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MALLEA'TUS. Beaten with a mallet, for the purpose of compression, extension, &c.; as, of books (Ulp. Dig. 32. 50.); Spanish broom (spartum, Columell. xii. 19. 4).