单词 | maul |
释义 | maul —mauler, n. /mawl/, n. 1. a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges. 2. Archaic. a heavy club or mace. v.t. 3. to handle or use roughly: The book was badly mauled by its borrowers. 4. to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise: to be mauled by an angry crowd. 5. to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail. Also, mall. [1200-50; (n.) ME malle < OF mail mallet, hammer < L malleus hammer; (v.) ME mallen < OF maillier, deriv. of n.] |
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