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mall

  [mawl; Brit. also mal]
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–noun
1. Also called shopping mall. a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building. Compare shopping center.
2. a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.
3. Chiefly Upstate New York. a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.
4. the game of pall-mall.
5. the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.
6. the place or alley where pall-mall was played.
Origin:
1635–45; by ellipsis from pall mall; see mell 2
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maul

  [mawl]
–noun
1. a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
2. Archaic. a heavy club or mace.
–verb (used with object)
3. to handle or use roughly: The book was badly mauled by its borrowers.
4. to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise: to be mauled by an angry crowd.
5. to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail.
Also, mall.

Origin:
1200–50; (n.) ME malle < OF mail mallet, hammer < L malleus hammer; (v.) ME mallen < OF maillier, deriv. of n.

Related forms:
mauler, noun
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mall 1   (môl, māl)   
n.  

  1. A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways.

  2. A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles.

  3. A shady public walk or promenade.

  4. Chiefly Upstate New York See median strip. See Regional Note at neutral ground.


[After The Mall in London, England, originally a pall-mall alley.]
mall 2   (môl)   
n.   & v.
Variant of maul.
maul   (môl)   


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n.  

  1. also mall (môl)

    1. A heavy, long-handled hammer used especially to drive stakes, piles, or wedges.

    2. A heavy hammer having a wedge-shaped head and used for splitting logs.

    3. A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball carrier being tackled and attempts to gain possession of the ball when it is released.

    4. The mass of players during such a play.

  2. Sports

    1. A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball carrier being tackled and attempts to gain possession of the ball when it is released.

    2. The mass of players during such a play.

tr.v.   mauled also malled, maul·ing also mall·ing, mauls also malls

  1. To injure by or as if by beating: The boxer mauled the other fighter. The critics mauled the novelist's first effort. See Synonyms at batter1.

  2. To handle roughly: The package was mauled by the careless messenger.

  3. To split (wood) with a maul and wedge.


[Middle English malle, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus; see melə- in Indo-European roots.]
maul'er n.
median strip  
n.   Eastern, Midwestern, & Southern U.S.
The dividing area, either paved or landscaped, between opposing lanes of traffic on some highways. Also called median; also called regionally boulevard, mall1, medial strip, meridian, neutral ground. See Regional Note at neutral ground.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

mall 
1737, "shaded walk serving as a promenade," from The Mall, broad, tree-lined promenade in St. James's Park, London (1674), formerly an open alley that was used to play pall-mall, a croquet-like game involving hitting a ball with a mallet through a ring, from Fr. pallemaille, from It. pallamaglio, from palla "ball" (see balloon) + maglio "mallet." Modern sense of "enclosed shopping gallery" is from 1963. Mall rat is from 1986.

maul  (v.)
c.1240, meallen "strike with a heavy weapon," from M.E. mealle (c.1240) "mace, wooden club, heavy hammer," from O.Fr. mail (see mallet). The meaning "damage seriously, shatter, mangle" is first recorded 1692.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

mall World-Wide Web
A collection of World-Wide Web documents featuring commercial products and services, usually served by one particualr Internet access provider.
(1995-04-10)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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