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maul
[mawl]
noun
a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
Archaic.a heavy club or mace.
verb (used with object)
to handle or use roughly.
The book was badly mauled by its borrowers.
to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise.
to be mauled by an angry crowd.
to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail.
maul
/ ɔː /
verb
to handle clumsily; paw
to batter or lacerate
noun
a heavy two-handed hammer suitable for driving piles, wedges, etc
rugby a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feet
Other 51Թ Forms
- mauler noun
- ˈܱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of maul1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of maul1
Example Sentences
In typically clinical fashion, they took this early chance as captain Conan peeled off the back of the maul and powered over.
In April, a man was mauled to death while walking in a forest in Central Slovakia.
He used to present as a staid mainline Episcopalian, but now he denounces that church and speaks of being "mauled by demons."
In it, the sheriff dropped a bombshell: “Miller was mauled to death after a black bear entered her home,” the paper reported.
An opening montage includes a bloodied sheep ostensibly mauled by an ochi.
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