Mace vs. Maul

A ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body.

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

A macebearer.

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

A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.

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.

A thin fleshy red covering that surrounds the kernel of the nutmeg, dried and used as a spice.

The mass of players during such a play.

A heavy fighting club.

To injure or mutilate, as by scratching or beating

A ceremonial form of this weapon.

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

A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.

(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.

An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.

To handle someone or something in a rough way.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers make leather supple when dressing it.

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

(archaic) A billiard cue.

(figuratively) To criticise harshly.

An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.

(transitive) To beat with a maul.

An old weight of 57.98 grains.

A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

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

Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.

To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

To hit someone or something with a mace.

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

To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.

Split (wood) with a maul and wedges

(informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

Injure badly by beating

A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.

A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.

A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; - used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.

A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.

An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority; a macebearer.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.

A chemical preparation containing tear gas in a solvent, packaged in the form of a spray, and used to temporarily incapacitate people, such as rioters or criminals, by causing intense eye and skin irritation; also called chemical mace. It is designed to be a non-lethal weapon for defending against violent people.

(trademark) a liquid that temporarily disables a person; prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization

An official who carries a mace of office

Spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed

A ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority