1) a wooden mallet or beetle. N.
2) Supper, asupper and merry-making, dancing, &c. given by the farmers to their servants on the last day of reaping the corn, or harvest home. N.
·noun A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. II. Maul ·vt To injure greatly; to do much harm to. III. Ma...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits (Prov. 25:18), properly a war-club. ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A heavy iron hammer, used for driving tree-nails or bolts; it has one end faced, and the opposite po...
The Sailor's Word-Book
(i.e. a hammer), a sort of battleaxe or hammer, used as an implement of war. (25:18) ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working. ...
See maul. ...
A large hammer used to start the top-mast fid, and to beat down the top, when setting up topmast-rig...
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls. ...