| Pronunciation: | | mâl
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
- [v] injure badly by beating
- [v] split (wood) with a maul and wedges
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| | Synonyms: | | mangle, sledge, sledgehammer |
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| | See Also: | | blemish, cleave, deface, disfigure, hammer, injure, mar, mutilate, rive, split, wound |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Maul\, n. [See {Mall} a hammer.]
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also {mall}.]
\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 Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits (Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abrade, abuse, assault, attack, bang, barbarize, bark, bash, baste, batter, beat, blemish, bloody, break, broil, bruise, brutalize, buffet, bung, bung up, burn, butcher, carry on, chafe, check, chip, claw, contuse, crack, craze, cut, destroy, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, dogfight, donnybrook, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, fracas, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, go on, hammer, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use, incise, injure, knock, knock about, lacerate, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay waste, loot, maim, make mincemeat of, maltreat, mangle, manhandle, melee, mishandle, mistreat, molest, mug, mutilate, outrage, paste, patter, pelt, pierce, pillage, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, puncture, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rap, rape, rave, rend, riot, rip, roar, rough, rough up, row, ruction, ruin, run, rupture, sack, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, set-to, skin, slash, slaughter, sledgehammer, slit, sow chaos, spank, sprain, stab, stick, storm, strain, tear, tear around, terrorize, thrash, thresh, thump, traumatize, vandalize, violate, wallop, whip, wound, wreck, wrench |
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