Maul

(noun.) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.

(verb.) injure badly by beating.

(verb.) split (wood) with a maul and wedges.

手打:斯蒂芬

• Christian, maul down the victuals from corner-cupboard if canst reach, man, and I'll draw a drap o' sommat to wet it with. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Wildeve turned the light eagerly upon the spot where Venn had found the box, and mauled the herbage right and left. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The one who had been mauled, he answered readily, and I'll swear I saw him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The third vision was of an unburied body, swollen, eyeless, mauled by passing birds and beasts and altogether terrible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• How is your friend Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite, after the mauling he got from the rogues in Northumberland Street? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

校对:米里亚姆