maul

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

maul (môl)© School Division, Houghton Mifflin Companyn.
1. also mall (môl)
a. A heavy, long-handled hammer used especially to drive stakes, piles, or wedges.
b. A heavy hammer having a wedge-shaped head and used for splitting logs.
2. Sports.
a. A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball carrier being tackled and attempts to gain possession of the ball when it is released.
b. The mass of players during such a play.tr.v. mauled, also malled maul·ing, mall·ing mauls, malls
1. To injure by or as if by beating:
The boxer mauled the other fighter. The critics mauled the novelist's first effort.
See Synonyms at batter¹.
2. To handle roughly:
The package was mauled by the careless messenger.
3. To split (wood) with a maul and wedge. [Middle English malle, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus. See melə- in Indo-European Roots.] maulʹer n.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sledge, sledgehammer, mangle