Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PALL-MALL
Pall `-mall ", n. Etym: [OF. palemail, It. pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. ball ) + magio hammer, fr. L. malleus. See lst Ball, and Mall a beetle. ]
Defn: A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell. ] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.
New American Oxford Dictionary
pall-mall
pall-mall |ˌpel ˈmel, ˈpôl ˈmôl, ˈpal ˈmal ˌpɛl ˈmɛl | ▶noun historical a 16th - and 17th -century game in which a boxwood ball was driven through an iron ring suspended at the end of a long alley. ORIGIN from obsolete French pallemaille, from Italian pallamaglio, from palla ‘ball ’ + maglio ‘mallet. ’
Oxford Dictionary
pall-mall
pall-mall |palˈmal | ▶noun [ mass noun ] historical a 16th - and 17th -century game in which a boxwood ball was driven through an iron ring suspended at the end of a long alley. The street Pall Mall in London was on the site of a pall-mall alley. ORIGIN from obsolete French pallemaille, from Italian pallamaglio, from palla ‘ball ’ + maglio ‘mallet ’.
Duden Dictionary
Pall-Mall
Pall-Mall Substantiv, Neutrum , das |pɛlˈmɛl |das Pall-Mall; Genitiv: des Pall-Mall englisch schottisches Ballspiel
The Wordsmith Dictionary