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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

/ ³¾É”˱ô /

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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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¾²¹³Ü±ô±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾²¹³Ü±ô·±ð°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of maul1

First recorded in 1200–50; (noun) Middle English malle, from Old French mail “mallet, hammer,†from Latin malleus “hammerâ€; (verb) Middle English mallen, from Old French maillier, derivative of noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of maul1

C13: from Old French mail, from Latin malleus hammer. See mallet
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The Slovak cabinet has approved a plan to shoot around a quarter of the country's brown bears, after a man was mauled to death while walking in a forest in Central Slovakia.

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He says the dog kept lunging for Lydia and in a frantic effort to stop it mauling his daughter, he had to "lie on top of it".

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The replays showed the maul which drove the Scotland skipper had been illegally set up, and despite Malcolm's protest, her effort was chalked off.

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But, just as Axelle Berthoumieu came on to replace the dismissed Vernier, Ireland got over for their second maul try, and third off a line-out, with Wafer again credited with the score.

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Like they did in the first half, Ireland came flying out of the traps after the restart and scored within three minutes when Sheehan touched down in the corner from a maul.

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