Maul /(?)/

Maul

n.
  1. A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

Maul

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Mauled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mauling

  1. To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
    Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul.
  2. To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
    It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented.