单词 | mauler |
释义 | maulern.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > sledge-hammer sledgea1000 mauler1305 sledgehammer1495 fore-hammer1543 sled1616 about-sledge1678 gad-sledge1874 Monday1965 1305 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Early Mayor's Court Rolls (1924) 217 (MED) [John le Cu..took away..one] malre. a1500 Medulla Gram. (Harl. 2257) in A. Way Promptorium Parvulorum (1843) I. 83 (note) Glebarius, a clotte maller. 1655 J. Phillips Satyr against Hypocrites 14 This hunger mauls, Au! 'tis a great mauler, it breaks stone-walls. 2. a. A person who mauls someone or something (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > oppressor troublera1382 oppressorc1400 overleader1440 oversetter1440 maul?a1475 overlayer1503 stripe1570 Tamerlane?1572 scorchvillein1577 overpressor1610 overcharger1611 deportator1616 mauler1618 mastix1651 trampler1785 oppressionist1828 downpressor1962 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > one who or that which damages spulyierc1475 marrerc1500 maimer1530 hinderer1532 nipper1535 mangler1561 spoiler1577 truncator1579 batterer1611 spoil?1611 mauler1618 wrecker1882 1618 Sir R. Naunton in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 74 The maller and confounder of theyr battel. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 93 Malleus Scotorum, the Hammer, or mauler of the Scots, is written on the Tomb of King Edward the first, in Westminster. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 169 Thomas Lord Cromwell, (the Mauler of Monasteries). 1788 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 306 The cutters and maulers had shifted to the East side of the Plantation in order to get rails. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 233 The Polish King, Casimir IV. (late mauler of the Teutsch Ritters). 1884 Athenæum 1 Mar. 278/2 Vice the great vampire and violence, the great mauler. 1922 Daily Mail 17 Nov. 8 A ‘mauler’ is a woman who ill uses everything she is shown. 1974 D. Ramsay No Cause to Kill ii. 132 The two-bit maulers and drifters and hustlers and junkies..she's been running with. b. U.S. A boxer, esp. one renowned for hitting hard. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of bruiser1744 ruffian1791 in-fighter1812 punisher1812 nobber1821 receiver general1821 slogger1829 slogster1881 ham1888 slaughterer1896 pushover1908 bum1917 mauler1920 palooka1920 round heel1926 set-up1926 powder puff1931 spoiler1948 kick-boxer1978 stiff1989 1920 Collier's 16 Oct. 24/3 Pinned in his own corner, the English mauler showed he was a ring general by pretendin' to be dazed and groggy. 1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday viii. 210 [Jack] Dempsey had been a mauler at the beginning of the decade; he was an ex-mauler at the end. 1962 H. S. Thompson Let. 16 Feb. in Proud Highway (1997) 320 So much for boxing. I dig a smooth mauler, but there are other ways to keep in shape. 1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 126 The Manassa Mauler was so famous that by 1920 mauler was used in prizefighting to mean any hard-hitting fighter. 3. slang. A hand; a fist. Cf. mauley n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > fist fista900 nievec1300 gripea1555 fistock1567 neufe1602 mauler1820 mallet1821 fives1825 duke1874 knobblies1898 1820 W. T. Moncrieff Mod. Collegians 18 The Old Gentleman wishes to know how to put his maulers in action. 1871 J. H. Banka State Prison Life 149 Offense..shies defense's ‘maulers’. 1936 ‘F. Gerald’ Millionaire in Mem. vii. 193 To a young fellow who fancied himself with his ‘maulers’ the proposition was attractive..plenty of fighting. 1960 S. H. Courtier Gently dust Corpse xii. 170 Wait till I get my maulers on Lew Boston. 1984 Battle Picture Libr. 169/2 Just 'cos the pommie can use his maulers, you're eating out of his hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1305 |
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