maul

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A maul is a heavy tool, often with a wooden head, used for driving wedges. It can also refer to a tool similar to a sledgehammer that has one wedge-shaped end, specifically designed for splitting wood. The word has been in use since the 13th century. It is related to words like hammer and sledgehammer.123

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Hammers and hammerlike tools
>maul, pestle, sledge, and others. The best known of the tools that go by the name hammer is the carpenter’s claw type, but there are many others, such as riveting, boilermaker’s, bricklayer’s, blacksmith’s, machinist’s ball peen and cross peen, stone (or spalling), prospecting, and tack…
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>maul, pestle, sledge, and others. The best known of the tools that go by the name hammer is the carpenter’s claw type, but there are many others, such as riveting, boilermaker’s, bricklayer’s, blacksmith’s, machinist’s ball peen and cross peen, stone (or spalling), prospecting, and tack…
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