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.