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Definition: Maul |
MaulNoun1. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges. Verb1. Split (wood) with a maul and wedges. 2. Injure badly by beating. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "maul" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Maul \Maul\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Mauled; Mauling.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Maul an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits (Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | A heavy, long-handled hammer for driving in wedges(e. g. in tree felling), posts, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Maul To beat roughly, to batter. The maul was a bludgeon with a leaden head, carried by ancient soldiery. It is generally called a "mall." Maul (The Giant). A giant who used to spoil young pilgrims with sophistry. He attacked Mr. Greatheart with a club, and the combat between them lasted for the space of an hour. At length Mr. Greatheart pierced the giant under the fifth rib, and then cut off his head. (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, pt. ii.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: MaulSynonyms: sledge (n), sledgehammer (n), mangle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp). |
Inexpedience | Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage. |
Property | Rent roll; income; (receipts); maul and wedges. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Maul |
| English words defined with "maul": Bemaul ♦ Mauled, Mauling ♦ Tew, To beat up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "maul": DOOR ASSEMBLER I ♦ Giants ♦ HOOP BENDER, TANK, hoop-bending-machine operator ♦ limerock tower loader ♦ Maul of Monks ♦ SAGGER MAKER, submarine worker ♦ TOWER ATTENDANT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Maul" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (gob, jaws, maw, mouth, muzzle, yap). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Geiles Maul und heiße Pisse (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Al Maul. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Splitting shingles with froe and maul on Coalins Project area farm, in western Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Toy Portrait - Star wars" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Darth Maul - a toy's portrait." |
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 | Pile driver; construction; drive; batter; beat; butt; dash; dig; hammer; jackhammer; knock; maul; plunge; pop; punch; ram; run; shoot; sink; smite; sock; stab; stick; strike; throw; thrust; thump; thwack; whack; wham. |
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| "Maul" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Maul" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.58% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.58% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "maul" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Maul | Last name | 1,000 | 16,837 |
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Expressions using "maul": maul and wedges ♦ maul oak. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "maul": maul-stick. | |
Ending with "maul": ruck-maul. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "maul"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, mill, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), sakatoj (beat up, cripple, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate), copëtoj (break, break in pieces, chop, crack up, cut to pieces, cut up, disintegrate, dismember, dissect, fissure, fragment, joint, mangle, rend, rip up, sever, sunder), çekiç (hammer, weight). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلق الخشب, كبد الخسائر, مطرقة (beetle, clapper, drop hammer, gavel, hammer, knocker, mallet, rapper), مدقة (beetle, hammer, pestle), هرس (jam, mash, mashing, pounding, pulverization, squash, triturate, trituration), ضرب بعنف (bang, bash, baste, lambaste, slam, smite, swat, swipe, thump, whack, whale), خاشن (maltreat, mishandle, rough), جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), إنتقد (carp, criticize, fault, find fault, lace, nibble, peck, quarrel, slash, slate, snipe, stricture, taking apart, upbraid), دق (beetle, chink, hammer, hammer down, knock, percussion, pound, pounding, pulverization, reduce, triturate, trituration). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ранявам (pip, sabre, scotch, shoot up, wound), раздърпвам (tousle), критикувам жестоко (slam), голям дървен чук (commander), мачкам (crease, crumple, knead, mash, paw, squash, squeeze, squish, work), боравя грубо с, боравя небрежно с, бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), правя на пух и прах (slam, tomahawk), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate), изпокъсвам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 殴打 (trounce, Trounced, trouncing). (various references) | |
Czech | ztrhat (explode), zřídit (belabour, establish, institute, open up, raise, refit), kyj (club). (various references) | |
Danish | mukkert af trae (mall, mallet, mawl), mukkert (mall, mallet, mawl, sledge, sledge hammer), trækølle (mall, mallet, mawl), træhammer (mall, mallet, mawl), skovhammer (mall, mallet, mawl). (various references) | |
Dutch | slei (mall, mallet, mawl), slegge (mall, mallet, mawl), houten hamer (mall, mallet, mawl). (various references) | |
Farsi | چماق (Bat, Bludgeon, Cudgel, Mace, Stave, Stick), چکش چوبی , له کردن (Mangle, Pummel, Quash, Rase, Scotch, Squash, Squeeze, Squelch), گرز (Club, Mallet, Wand), توپوز (Knobkerrie), تخماق (Commander), ضربت سنگین (Slam), صدمه زدن (Damnify, Harm, Mar, Nip, Offend, Scathe), خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Mince, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), باچکش زدن یاکوبیدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | murjoa, rusikoida (batter, handle roughly), runnella (mangle, mutilate, ravage). (various references) | |
French | mutiler (maim, mangle), malmener (maltreat, manhandle), maillet de bois (mall, mallet, mawl), maillet (mallet), pile (each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store), lacérer, frapper, frappe-devant, déchiqueter, éreinter, écraser (mash). (various references) | |
German | verreißen (blast, crucify, damn, jerk, pan, pull apart, slate, tear to pieces), schlegel (drumstick, drumsticks, miner's hammer, stick), rohe behandlung, Holzschlegel (mall, mallet, mawl, padded), Holzschlägel (mall, mallet, mawl), Holzhammer (mallet, sledgehammer), beschädigen (blemish, bruise, chip, damage, deface, injure, knock about, knock around, Mar, Mark, nip, spoil, spoilt, strip, to damage, to injure), übel zurichten (mangle, mess up). (various references) | |
Greek | κόπανοσ (flail, jerk, mallet, rammer, swingle), κακοποιώ (maltreat), κτυπώ (bang, buffet, bump, clack, clobber, clout, cudgel, hit, impinge, knock, larrup, rap, shroud, slat, smite, strike, swat, thrash), κοπανίζω (pound, thrash, thwack), ξύλινο σφυρί (mallet), μεγάλη σφύρα, ματσόλα (beetle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למחוץ (bruise, crumple, crush, mangle, overwhelm, smite, squash, wound), לקצץ (chop, clip, cut down, hack, hackle, lop, prune, scale down, slash, whittle down), לפצוע (bruise, hurt, injure, mangle, scotch, slash, wound), קורנס (drop hammer, mallet, sledge, sledge hammer, triphammer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sulyok (bat, battledore, beetle, dolly, mall, mallet, monkey, ram), nehéz fakalapács, buzogány (indian club, mace), bakó (hanger, hangman, ketch). (various references) | |
Italian | maglio (hammer, mallet, power hammer, sledge hammer). (various references) | |
Korean | 메. (various references) | |
Manx | tratney (beat flax, mauling), tratnane (mallet), lhuddyral (bedraggle, mangle, mangling, mauling), lhuddyraghey (bedraggle, mangle, mangling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aulmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | malho (beetle, flail, sled, sledge), macete (beetle, pole-ax), maço (beetle, bunch, pack, packet, sheaf, wad). (various references) | |
Romanian | maltrata (abuse, bedevil, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, mishandle, mistreat, misuse), mai manual, schilodi (cripple, disable, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate), lovi cu maiul. (various references) | |
Russian | кувалда (about-sledge, sled, sledge, sledgehammer, sledge-hammer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | malj (beetle, mallet, monkey), teško povrediti. (various references) | |
Spanish | mazo (beetle, club, gavel, mace, mallet, pounder). (various references) | |
Swedish | slägga (about-sledge, hammer, sledge, sledgehammer). (various references) | |
Thai | หยิบจับอย่างหยาบกระด้าง. (various references) | |
Turkish | yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), yaralamak (bruise, chafe, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, pip, prick, rasp, scotch, wound), tokmak (beetle, gavel, hammer, knob, Mall, mallet, stick), hırpalamak (batter, beat up, bruise, ill treat, ill use, jolt, knock about, knock around, maltreat, misuse, punish, ruffle, work over, worry), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | калатало, грубо поводитися (kick around, pull about, rough up), глинистий грунт, бити (bang, batter, beat, castigate, chastise, chime, cob, hit, lambaste, lay into, sing out, souse, thump, towel, trounce, whop). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái vồ lớn. (various references) | |
Welsh | llarpio (mangle, rend, tear). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 18 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Iaculum et gladius et sagitta acuta homo qui loquitur contra proximum suum testimonium falsum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Spere, and swerd, and sharp arwe, a man that speketh ayen his neyhebore fals witnesse. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang usa ka tawo nga nagasaksi ug bakak batok sa iyang isigkatawo Maoy usa ka mazo, ug usa ka pinuti, ug usa ka maidlut nga udyong. |
| Croatian | Èovjek koji svjedoèi lažno na bližnjega svoga on je kao bojni malj i maè i oštra strijela. |
| Danish | Som Stridsøkse, Sværd og hvassen Pil er den, der vidner falsk mod sin Næste. |
| Dutch | Een man, tegen zijn naaste een valse getuigenis sprekende, is een hamer, en zwaard, en scherpe pijl. |
| Finnish | Nuija ja miekka ja terävä nuoli on mies, joka väärin todistaa lähimmäistänsä vastaan. |
| French | Comme une massue, une épée et une flèche aiguë, Ainsi est un homme qui porte un faux témoignage contre son prochain. |
| German | Wer wider seinen Nächsten falsch Zeugnis redet, der ist ein Spieß, Schwert und scharfer Pfeil. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Yon moun k'ap mache bay manti sou moun, se tankou yon makak chaplèt, yon nepe, yon flèch byen pwenti. Li ka touye ou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tuduhan palsu dapat mematikan, seperti pedang, palu atau panah yang tajam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adapun orang yang naik saksi dusta atas samanya manusia, ia itu seperti cokmar dan pedang dan anak panah yang tajam. |
| Italian | Mazza, spada e freccia acuta è colui che depone il falso contro il suo prossimo. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko te tangata e whakaatu teka ana mo tona hoa, he patu ia, he hoari, a he pere koi. |
| Norwegian | Som en hammer, et sverd, en hvass pil er en mann som fører falskt vidnesbyrd mot sin næste. |
| Rumanian | Ca un buzdugan, ca o sabie wi ca o sqgeatq ascuyitq, awa este un om care face o mqrturisire mincinoasq kmpotriva aproapelui squ. - |
| Russian | юФП НПМПФ Й НЕЮ Й ПУФТБС УФТЕМБ, ФП ЮЕМПЧЕЛ, РТПЙЪОПУСЭЙК МПЦОПЕ УЧЙДЕФЕМШУФЧП РТПФЙЧ ВМЙЦОЕЗП УЧПЕЗП. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "maul": mauled, mauler, maulers, mauling, mauls, maulstick, maulsticks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "maul": hamaul. (additional references) | |
Words containing "maul": hamauls. (additional references) | |
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"Maul" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amal, amol, amu, amul, amux, aul, eaul, Emaux, maal, macul, Madl, mael, Mafulke, Magull, Mahl, mahu, maill, mailu, maiul, Maizl, Malu, malue, Maluf, Mamuk, maop, Mapu, Masum, mau, maual, mauble, maugle, maui, mauil, maull, mault, mauly, maum, maun, maur, maus, maut, mauv, mauw, maux, mauz, mawl, mazul, mehl, Meuli, Meux, Mgulu, miau, miu, Molua, Moluf, moul, mouli, Mouly, Mpu, muay, Muhl, mul, mula, mulm, mulu, muu, muul, muuu, Mxu, Naaucl, naul, smaul. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "maul" (pronounced mô"l) |
| 3 | m ô" l | Mall, mol, small. |
| 2 | -ô" l | all, appall, ball, bawl, befall, brawl, call, crawl, drawl, enthral, forestall, gall, hall, haul, Spall, sprawl, squall, stall, tall, install, Lall, Pol, Sall, Saul, scrawl, Shaul, shawl, thrall, wall. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alum. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-u" | |
-1 letter: amu, lam, lum. | |
-2 letters: al, am, la, ma, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: album, algum, almud, almug, alums, ampul, haulm, larum, mauls, miaul, mulla, mural, qualm, ulama, ulema. | |
+2 letters: aimful, alarum, albums, algums, allium, almuce, almude, almuds, almugs, alumin, alumna, alumni, ampule, ampuls, amulet, amylum, armful, asylum, brumal, famuli, fulham, fullam, fulmar, hamaul, hamuli, haulms, haulmy, jumbal, kalium, labium, labrum, larums, lumbar, lumina, macula, macule, mamluk, manful, manual, mauled, mauler, miauls, morula, muleta, mullah, mullas, murals, mutual, pablum, qualms, qualmy, talcum, ulamas, ulemas, ultima, umbral, umlaut. | |
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