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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

... for a newspaper office, my boy," said Jasper at length. "How you will cut into the coming poet, and maul the fledgling of the prose writer! Well, I ...

— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney

... first by pounding the apples by hand in wooden mortars; sometimes the pomace was pressed in baskets. Rude mills were then formed with a hollowed log, and a heavy weight or maul on a spring-board. Cider soon became the common drink of the people, and it was made in vast quantities. In 1671 five hundred hogsheads were made of one orchard's produce. One village of forty families made three thousand barrels in 1721. Bennet wrote ...

— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

... man muss nicht die Buchstaben in der Lateinischen Sprache fragen wie man soll Deutsch reden: sondern man muss die Mutter in Hause, die Kinder auf den Gassen, den gemeinen Mann auf dem Markte, darum fragen: und denselbigen auf das Maul sehen wie sie reden, und darnach dolmetschen. So verstehen sie es denn, und merken dass ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... all stick together coming home from school. And if they catch just one of us, why, we can maul them, too." For Shultz's declaration meant that the guerrilla warfare was in full ...

— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely

... a crowd! How, when shall we get past This nuisance, these unending ant-like swarms? Yet, Ptolemy, we owe thee thanks for much Since heaven received thy sire! No miscreant now Creeps Thug-like up, to maul the passer-by. What games men played erewhile—men shaped in crime, Birds of a feather, rascals every one! —We're done for, Gorgo darling—here they are, The Royal horse! Sweet sir, don't trample me! That bay—the savage!—reared ...

— Theocritus • Theocritus

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