maul /ˈmɔl/
 大槌(vt.)打傷,虐打,粗暴對待


 Mall n. [Written also maul.]
 1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
 2. A heavy blow. [Obs.]
 3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
 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.


 Maul n.  A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also mall.]


 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.

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 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]


 Maul
    an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits
    (Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club.