Hypertext Webster Gateway: "maul"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Maul
an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits
(Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mall \Mall\ (m[add]l; 277), n. [Written also {maul}.] [OE.
malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. {Malleus}.]
1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything
with force; a maul. --Addison.
2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See
{Pall-mall}. --Cotton.
4. 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.
--Southey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maul \Maul\, n. [See {Mall} a hammer.]
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also {mall}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maul \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
maul
n : a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
[syn: {sledge}, {sledgehammer}]
v 1: split (wood) with a maul and wedges
2: injure badly by beating [syn: {mangle}]
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