to maul
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7.7
- verb
- /mɔl/
- US
:
partir leña
- If you had said, 'Would you like to come over so I can maul you, spill my drink on you, and then act unpleasantly?'
Examples
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To maul, actually.
Academic text (2008) -
I'm just picturing what sort of mauled bitch they keep around here for a girl.
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"Let me see what hurts," my father said, and he carefully unwrapped her fingers from around the mauled thumb joint.
Fiction book (2002) -
Everyone is throwing their hats into the air, and the team mauls Santos as they collapse into a pile on the floor.
Fiction book (2001) -
Victor hated Hunt because Hunt had to touch and turn everything he saw in his hands, leave a mark, before he would let it go; nothing else came to Hunt's door, but Hunt first had to maul it, hold it tight, if only for the minute it took to drop it, because with Hunt everything was itches: raw, unscratched places.
Fiction book (1993) -
The lumberjack used a maul to split the thick logs into manageable pieces.
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He regularly takes his maul to the woodpile to prepare firewood for winter.
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To make kindling, she grabbed a maul and started splitting the larger branches.
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
A medium-sized evergreen tree with oblong, leathery leaves that often have spiny edges and grows in dry southwestern North America
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Etymology
The verb maul for splitting wood comes from the name of the big hammer used for that job, related to mallet. So to maul wood is literally to 'hit' and split it with a heavy tool.