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mall (MAWL, MAL) (noun)
1. An urban shopping center, often enclosed to protect shoppers from the weather: Going to the mall is one of Jane's favorite things to do on Saturday when she can buy the items she needs for the week.
2. A grassy public park, typically for pedestrian use: Shanna strolled down the mall and enjoyed the beauty of the flowering trees.
2. A grassy public park, typically for pedestrian use: Shanna strolled down the mall and enjoyed the beauty of the flowering trees.
maul (MAWL) (noun)
A tool used for cutting or chopping lumber: The hired hand on the farm used a mall to split logs for firewood.
maul (MAWL) (verb)
To injure or to handle roughly: There were reports in the newspaper of attempts by bears to maul and physically harm hikers.
moll (MAHL) (noun)
A woman companion of a gunman or gangster: The crook's moll told the police where the gang was hiding.
The gangster's moll decided to go to the mall for the New Year's sales; however, she immediately went back home because she noticed that the mall was packed with so many people and she didn't want anyone to maul her during the excitement of the sales.
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maul, mauls; mauled, mauling (verbs)
1. To beat, batter, or tear at a person or animal: "The San Francisco Zoo was closed to visitors Wednesday (December 26, 2007) as investigators tried to determine how a tiger escaped from its enclosue and attacked three visitors, killing one man and mauling another two. Last year, Tatiana, a Siberian tiger, reached through her cage's bars and mauled a keeper by ripping the flesh off the zookeeper's arm just before Christmas of 2006."
2. To handle someone or something too roughly or clumsily.
3. To split wood using a large heavy hammer and a wedge.
4. A large heavy hammer, usually with a wooden head, that is used for driving in piles, stakes, or wedges.
5. A heavy hammer that has one side of the head shaped like a wedge, making it suitable for splitting logs or wood.
6. Etymology: from about 1240, meallen, "strike with a heavy weapon"; from Middle English mealle, "mace, wooden club, heavy hammer"; from Old French mail "mallet"; from Latin malleus, "hammer".
2. To handle someone or something too roughly or clumsily.
3. To split wood using a large heavy hammer and a wedge.
4. A large heavy hammer, usually with a wooden head, that is used for driving in piles, stakes, or wedges.
5. A heavy hammer that has one side of the head shaped like a wedge, making it suitable for splitting logs or wood.
6. Etymology: from about 1240, meallen, "strike with a heavy weapon"; from Middle English mealle, "mace, wooden club, heavy hammer"; from Old French mail "mallet"; from Latin malleus, "hammer".
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