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noun

Mall n. (Written also maul)

A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

A heavy blow. (Obs.)

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.

A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. "Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall."

Maul n. (Written also mall) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

verb

Maul v. t. (past & past part. mauled; pres. part. mauling)

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner. "Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul."

To injure greatly; to do much harm to. "It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented."

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Etymology of 'Maul'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Maul" Quotes from Famous Books

... without the knowledge of my mother, stay in the cabin late at night listening to the men and women telling their "experiences." The men would be making ax handles and beating the husk off of the corn in a large wooden hopper with a maul. The women would be spinning with the little wheel, sewing, knitting and combing their children's heads. I would listen until my teeth would chatter with fright, and would shiver more and more, as they would tell ...

— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... fell short of my hero in other ways. He looked like a fat man and his fiddling was only middling, therefore, notwithstanding his prowess with the axe and the maul, he remained subordinate to David, and though they never came to a test of strength we were perfectly sure that David was the finer man. His supple grace and his unconquerable ...

— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... clear) All right, don't maul, Christie. If the Squire was commonly civil to a poor chap, you'd see a little more of me. I want something to drink, and ...

— The Squire - An Original Comedy in Three Acts • Arthur W. Pinero

... by our former owners I will say good—cording to situation of time. Every year when Massa and Missus gone mountains, they call up obersheer (overseer) and say, 'Don't treat them anyway severe. Don't beat them. Don't maul them.' (Mr. Heminingway ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... women dispute for the supremacy, often in a desperate pitched battle with sharp stones, seconded by their respective friends. They maul each other's faces with savage violence, and if one is knocked down her friends assist her to regain her feet, and the brutal combat is renewed until one or the other is driven from the wigwam. The husband stands by and looks placidly ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

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