Dictionaries › English

maul

Pronunciation: /mɔːl/

The English word “maul” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
  2. 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.
  3. The fruit of the Washingtonia species.

verb

  1. To handle someone or something in a rough way.
  2. To savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
  3. To criticise harshly.
  4. To beat with a maul.
  5. To play rough, to fondle intensively.

Etymology

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

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “maul” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.