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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Maul

Maul, n.

noun

n. [See MALL.] A heavy wooden hammer. [Written also mall.]

Maul, v. t.

verbtransitive

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 deform greatly; to do much harm to. It mauls not only the person misrepresented, but him also to whom he is misrepresented. South.