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maul
[mawl] Pronunciation Key
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[mawl] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges. |
| 2. | Archaic. a heavy club or mace. |
| 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.
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mauler, noun
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
maul
(môl) Pronunciation Key
(click for larger image in new window) n.
tr.v. mauled also malled, maul·ing also mall·ing, mauls also malls
[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.)
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
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| 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.
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.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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