a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

The blunt or square projection of such a hammer, as distinguished from the beak on the opposite side of the handle_ this blunt end was often divided into four, six, or more blunt points or protuberances, A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul, The paved or grassy strip between two roadways, transitive verb_ To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul