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Webster 1913 Edition

Maul

Maul

,
Noun.
[See
Mall
a hammer.]
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
[Written also
mall
.]

Maul

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Maul

MAUL

,
Noun.
[L. malleus. See Mall.]
A heavy wooden hammer; written also mall.

MAUL

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

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