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maul
Pronunciation: (môl), [key]—
n.
1. a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
2. Archaic.a heavy club or mace.
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v.t.
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.
Also,mall.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.