n. A heavy wooden hammer or mallet; a kind of beetle; a mall.To beat and bruise with a maul, or as if with, a maul; disfigure by beating.To do injury to, especially gross injury, in any way.To split with wedges and a maul or mallet.n. Clayey, sticky soil.n. A moth.n. The common mallow of Great Britain, Malva sylvestris.n. Specifically In well-boring, a heavy block of wood used like the ram of a pile-driver to drive pipe into the ground for water or preliminary to boring in the rock below.n. Same as mold, n.