Mall vs. Maul — What's the Difference?

A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways.

A heavy, long-handled hammer used especially to drive stakes, piles, or wedges.

A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles.

A heavy hammer having a wedge-shaped head and used for splitting logs.

A shady public walk or promenade.

A play in rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball carrier being tackled and attempts to gain possession of the ball when it is released.

Chiefly Upstate New York See median.

The mass of players during such a play.

A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

To injure or mutilate, as by scratching or beating

An enclosed shopping centre.

A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.

(obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

(rugby) A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.

A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

To handle someone or something in a rough way.

A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

To savage; to cause serious physical wounds usually used of an animal.

(obsolete) The game of polo.

(figuratively) To criticise harshly.

(obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

(transitive) To beat with a maul.

To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

To build up with the development of shopping malls

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

(informal) to shop at the mall

To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

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

A heavy blow.

Split (wood) with a maul and wedges

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.

Injure badly by beating

A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.

Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.

A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.

The paved or grassy strip between two roadways.

A shopping area with multiple shops and a concourse for predominantly or exclusively pedestrian use; in cities the concourse is usually a city street which may be temporarily or permamently closed to motor vehicles; in suburban areas, a mall is often located on a convenient highway, may be large, contained in one building or in multiple buildings connected by (usually covered) walkways. Also called shopping mall

To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk

Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace;