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  • noun Plural form of mauler.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large strong hand (as of a fighter)

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Examples

  • By building super-powerful battleships, called "maulers", the Patrol gained a temporary advantage over Boskonia, but a stalemate soon ensued.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • "maulers," and told Captain Raft he could whip him, - the pilot, and deck hands, and if they would give him the advantage of the "under grip," he would let the piston - rod of the engine punch him in the side all the time the fight was going on.

    The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

  • Now young men goofing around are immortalized as misogynist maulers, portentous reminders to the rest of us that the gender wars won't end until irreverence and humor are dead.

    Amy Siskind: Did Sexism Fell Kathleen Parker? Amy Siskind 2011

  • Now young men goofing around are immortalized as misogynist maulers, portentous reminders to the rest of us that the gender wars won't end until irreverence and humor are dead.

    Amy Siskind: Did Sexism Fell Kathleen Parker? Amy Siskind 2011

  • Now young men goofing around are immortalized as misogynist maulers, portentous reminders to the rest of us that the gender wars won't end until irreverence and humor are dead.

    Amy Siskind: Did Sexism Fell Kathleen Parker? Amy Siskind 2011

  • At its core, the Giants' offensive line is a group of maulers.

    Giants Need Vintage Play From Offensive Line Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010

  • The people who say Ali couldn't punch have to remember that he "couldn't punch" only in comparison with world-class maulers like Liston, Frazier, and Shavers.

    Liston vs. Ali 2008

  • Mike Pollak, Arizona State, 6-4, 301, 2nd: Although he packs a quick and effective initial punch, Pollak doesn't have the overall strength to outmuscle some of the massive maulers he will face in the NFL.

    Fortifying the front: Best OL available in the draft 2008

  • This has been a good run-blocking line but will move away from undersized cut-blockers to beefy maulers.

    Are Falcons forming a backup plan without Vick? 2007

  • When Brown speaks loftily of his moral compass, of wanting unity and social justice and of caring for the poor of the world, he forms and traps a world in his half eaten maulers, which he then avariciously crushes to his chest in one of the best sign language renditions of 'mine, all mine!'

    If you can keep your head ..... Newmania 2007

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