maulers
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.
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World English Dictionary
maul (mɔːl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to handle clumsily; paw |
| 2. | to batter or lacerate |
| —n | |
| 3. | a heavy two-handed hammer suitable for driving piles, wedges, etc |
| 4. | rugby a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feet |
| [C13: from Old French mail, from Latin malleus hammer. See | |
| 'mauler | |
| —n | |
| maulers (ˈmɔːləz) | |
| —pl n | |
| slang (Brit) the hands | |
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Word Origin & History
maul
mid-13c., meallen "strike with a heavy weapon," from M.E. mealle (mid-13c.) "mace, wooden club, heavy hammer," from O.Fr. mail (see mallet). The meaning "damage seriously, shatter, mangle" is first recorded 1690s. Related: Mauled; mauling.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Maul definition
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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