a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
split (wood) with a maul and wedges
To handle someone or something in a rough way.
The word maul comes from the Latin word malleus, which means "hammer." It entered English through Middle English and Anglo-Norman as a term for a heavy club or mace.