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- noun A
heavy hammer orbeetle , often made ofwood orlead .
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Examples
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Thou 'mongat Christs Saints with prayers maist her mawle:
Collections 1792
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i will be most interested in seeing joseph mawle play ned!
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He also cites mention of the "holy mawle which (they fancy) hung behind the church door, which, when the father was seventy, the son might fetch to knock his father on the head as effete and of no more use." [
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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