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单词 mauler
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maulern.

Brit. /ˈmɔːlə/, U.S. /ˈmɔlər/, /ˈmɑlər/
Forms: Middle English malre, Middle English–1600s maller, 1600s– mauler, 1900s– mawler.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: maul v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < maul v.1 + -er suffix1. In sense 2a, sometimes used to render post-classical Latin malleus (compare maul n.1 2a).The Survey of English Dialects records a single example of sense 2a, in the plural, from Yorkshire.
1. A hammer, a maul. Obsolete.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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