maul
• verb 1 wound by scratching and tearing. 2 handle or treat savagely or roughly. • noun 1 Rugby Union a loose scrum formed around a player with the ball off the ground. 2 another term for BEETLE2 (in sense 1). — ORIGIN from Latin malleus ‘hammer’.
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