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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
maul       [mawl] Pronunciation Key
–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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maul       (môl)  Pronunciation Key 


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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.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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maul

noun
1. a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges 

verb
1. split (wood) with a maul and wedges 
2. injure badly by beating 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Maul

Maul\, n. [See Mall a hammer.] A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also mall.]

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Maul

Maul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mauled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mauling.]

1. To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul. --Pope.

2. To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented. --South.

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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Maul

an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits (Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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