<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.</li><li>Archaic. a heavy club or mace.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to handle or use roughly: The book was badly mauled by its borrowers.</li><li>to injure by a rough beating, shoving, or the like; bruise: to be mauled by an angry crowd.</li><li>to split with a maul and wedge, as a wooden rail.</li></ul>