mauls

'I saw Someone yesterday,' said the beggar, 'with a mottled neckerchief, like a sailor, who had come with a grain vessel to the next port;' and so every rag and tag mauls me to suit his own evil purpose.

The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

Comparatively few stone implements, such as mauls, hammers, axes, and spearpoints, were found; but some of those unearthed from the mounds are finely finished, being regular in form and highly polished.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

Shopping centres in the UK are increasingly referred to as 'mauls' by teenagers, who presumably more frequently exposed to US TV and film than the slightly archaic/unusual pronunciation 'mall'.

Wired Campus 2010

Shopping centres in the UK are increasingly referred to as 'mauls' by teenagers, who presumably more frequently exposed to US TV and film than the slightly archaic/unusual pronunciation 'mall'.

Wired Campus 2010

My fists were of the hardness of topping-mauls, and I had the muscles and will to drive them.

Chapter 15 2010

The crafters complied, stepping back while mauls and axes and swords rained down.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

They have tried to contact athorities but have been told until the wild animal mauls someone they will not capture or relocate it.

Maul Window | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

The crafters complied, stepping back while mauls and axes and swords rained down.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

It's the same with the people Reading their heartfelt stories off a piece of paper at the town mauls, I mean halls.

Kennedy urges immediate Senate replacement if vacancy occurs 2009

I watch Hannah play with her baby brother, and she alternately hugs and mauls him.

» Sibling Love Strocel.com 2009