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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[See

a hammer.]

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

[Written also

mall

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Mauled

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Mauling

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.

To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

mauls

not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented.

South.

Noun.

[L. malleus. See Mall.]

A heavy wooden hammer; written also mall.

Verb.

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

Meek modern faith to murder, hack and maul.