maul

See also: Maul

English

A maul.

Etymology

Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: mall
• Homophone: moll (some accents)

Noun

maul (plural mauls)

1. A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
2. (rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

Synonyms

• (weapon): club, mace

Hyponyms

• (long-handled hammer): post maul, spike maul, splitting maul
• (rugby): rolling maul

Translations

heavy, long-handled hammer

• Bashkir: балға (balğa), сүкеш (sükeš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大錘 (zh), 大锤 (zh) (dàchuí)

• Dutch: kloofbijl f
• Finnish: moukari (fi), nuija (fi), leka (fi)
• French: merlin (fr) m
• Galician: marra f
• German: Spalthammer m

• Italian: maglio (it) m, mazza (it) f
• Latvian: veseris m
• Lithuanian: kovos kūjis
• Persian: پلوک‎ (fa) (paluk)
• Portuguese: malho (pt) m, marreta (pt) f
• Russian: кува́лда (ru) f (kuválda)
• Spanish: mandarria f, mallo (es) m
• Swedish: släggyxa c

rugby

• Catalan: mol (ca) m
• Irish: crág f

• Russian: схва́тка (ru) f (sxvátka) (за мяч)
• Swedish: mörbulta (sv)

See also

• ruck
• scrum

Verb

maul (third-person singular simple present mauls, present participle mauling, simple past and past participle mauled)

1. To handle someone or something in a rough way.
2. To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal).

   The bear mauled him in a terrible way.

3. (figuratively) To criticise harshly.

Translations

handle in a rough way

• Czech: hrubě (cs) zacházet
• Finnish: vahingoittaa pahasti, murjoa (fi), pahoinpidellä (fi)
• French: maltraiter (fr)
• German: rücksichtslos anfassen, misshandeln (de)

• Portuguese: maltratar (pt)
• Russian: терза́ть (ru) impf (terzátʹ), истяза́ть (ru) impf (istjazátʹ), му́чить (ru) impf (múčitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: slac
• Spanish: maltratar (es)

savage

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毆打 (zh), 殴打 (zh) (ōudǎ), 傷害 (zh), 伤害 (zh) (shānghài)

• Czech: potrhat
• Dutch: toetakelen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: raadella (fi), pahoinpidellä (fi)

• French: amocher (fr)
• German: übel zurichten
• Hungarian: marcangol (hu)
• Italian: sbranare (it)
• Japanese: 殴る (ja) (naguru)
• Lao: ຕີ (tī)
• Portuguese: malhar (pt)
• Russian: кале́чить (ru) impf (kaléčitʹ), покале́чить (ru) pf (pokaléčitʹ), искале́чить (ru) pf (iskaléčitʹ), растерзать (ru) pf (rasterzát')

to criticise rudely

• Czech: ztrhat
• French: casser du sucre sur le dos de (fr)

• Italian: strapazzare (it)
• Portuguese: maltratar (pt), malhar (pt)

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} maltractar

Related terms

• mall
• mallet

References

• maul at OneLook Dictionary Search
• maul in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• Lamu, alum, luma, malu, mula

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Noun

maul n

1. (anatomy) mouth

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien