maul
/mɔːl/
maul noun: a heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
Noun
maul (plural mauls)
- A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
- 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.
- The fruit of the Washingtonia species.
Verb
maul (third-person singular simple present mauls, present participle mauling, simple past and past participle mauled)
- To handle someone or something in a rough way.
- To savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
- The bear mauled him in a terrible way.
- The embattled heavy cruiser is not in immediate danger of sinking, but is being badly mauled.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 26:02 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022
- To criticise harshly.
- The latest film by the Cohen brothers was mauled by the press, and was a box-office flop to boot.
- To beat with a maul.
- To play rough, to fondle intensively.
- 28 year old big, burly, bearded grizzly looking for other bears to maul me! Facial/body hair, brains a plus!1990 January 21, “Fuck Buddy/ies wanted”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 27, Personals, page 13
maul meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
maul in Tamil
- துன்புறுத்து, பழுதாக்கு, வல்லிட்டுக்குற்றி, சம்மட்டி
maul in Urdu
- برا سلوک کرنا, مرمت کرنا, پٹائی کرنا, ٹھکائی کرنا
maul in Bengali
- আহত করা, ক্ষতবিক্ষত করা, মারপিট করা, ভারি হাতুড়ি
maul in Malayalam
- മരമുട്ടി, കൊട്ടുവടി, ചുറ്റിക
More languagesFewer languages
- maul in Kannada
- ಬಡಿದು ಚಚ್ಚು, ಜಜ್ಜಿಹಾಕು, ಒರಟಾಗಿ ಗಾಯಗೊಳಿಸು, ಹಿಗ್ಗಾಮುಗ್ಗಾ ಹೊಡಿ
- maul in Arabic
- ميقعة, فِطِّيس fiṭṭīs
- maul in Persian
- پلوک paluk
- maul in Thai
- ขย้ำ kà-yâm, ตะครุบ
Examples of maul in a sentence
- On the field, Brown thwarted triple-teams, mauled quarterbacks and stuffed running lanes.
- Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?
- I want to be able to maul those poor dead beasties.
Synonyms of maul
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Forms of maul
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mauls |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mauls |
| present participle | mauling |
| past participle | mauled |
| past | mauled |
Origin of maul
From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.
Words formed from maul
Phrases with maul
Words that rhyme with maul
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- pall
- paul
- recall
- tall
- Donegal
- saul
- forestall
- Saint Paul
- all
- appall
- hauler
- overcall
- overhaul
- scrawl
- withcall
- befall
- brawl
- drawl
- install
- set out one's stall
- sing small
- bawl
- orle
- spall
- sprawl
- squall
- trawl
- withal
- y'all
- acrawl
- awl
- infall
- moneyball
- overall
- pawl
- saule
- Senegal
- shawl
- spawl
- tell all
- yawl
- appal
- asprawl
- at all
- aul
- becrawl
- bescrawl
- besmall
Questions about maul
- What does maul mean?
- Maul means a heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
- What is maul in Tamil?
- Maul in Tamil is துன்புறுத்து, பழுதாக்கு, வல்லிட்டுக்குற்றி. See Maul meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is maul?
- Maul can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce maul?
- Maul is pronounced /mɔːl/.
- What is the plural of maul?
- The plural of maul is mauls.
Words near maul in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: maul (page history and authors); maul (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maul (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Maul (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maul (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maul (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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