maul: Meaning and Definition of

maul

1. a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
2. a heavy club or mace.

1. to handle or use roughly: The book was badly mauled by its borrowers.
2. to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise: to be mauled by an angry crowd.
3. to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail.