Maul
Maul , noun
[See Mall a hammer.]
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
Maul , transitive verb
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.