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noun
A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: club, mace
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports
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noun
The fruit of the Washingtonia species.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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verb
To handle someone or something in a rough way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: abuse, mishandle, misuse
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verb
To savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually
Synonyms: harm, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forwork, grieve, harrow, hurt, injure, maul, mayhem, misdo, put someone in hospital, scaith, scathe, vulnerate, wet
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To criticise harshly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Synonyms: castigate, excoriate, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, censure, charge, chastise, chew out, chide, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, find fault, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
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verb
To beat with a maul.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To play rough, to fondle intensively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle, sex, sexuality
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noun
a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sledge, sledgehammer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hammer
verb
injure badly by beating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mangle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deface, disfigure, blemish
verb
split (wood) with a maul and wedges
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cleave, split, rive
History
From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.
Across languages
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