- a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- a heavy club or mace.
- to handle or use roughly: The book was badly mauled by its borrowers.
- to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise: to be mauled by an angry crowd.
- to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail.
- to handle clumsily; paw
- to batter or lacerate
- a heavy two-handed hammer suitable for driving piles, wedges, etc
- a loose scrum that forms around a player who is holding the ball and on his feet
