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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)

  1. to handle or use roughly.

    The book was badly mauled by its borrowers.

  2. to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise.

    to be mauled by an angry crowd.

  3. to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail.

maul

/ ɔː /

verb

  1. to handle clumsily; paw

  2. to batter or lacerate

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a heavy two-handed hammer suitable for driving piles, wedges, etc

  2. rugby a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feet

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • mauler noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of maul1

First recorded in 1200–50; (noun) Middle English malle, from Old French mail “mallet, hammer,” from Latin malleus “hammer”; (verb) Middle English mallen, from Old French maillier, derivative of noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of maul1

C13: from Old French mail, from Latin malleus hammer. See mallet
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In typically clinical fashion, they took this early chance as captain Conan peeled off the back of the maul and powered over.

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In April, a man was mauled to death while walking in a forest in Central Slovakia.

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He used to present as a staid mainline Episcopalian, but now he denounces that church and speaks of being "mauled by demons."

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In it, the sheriff dropped a bombshell: “Miller was mauled to death after a black bear entered her home,” the paper reported.

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An opening montage includes a bloodied sheep ostensibly mauled by an ochi.

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