What's the difference between maul and sledge?

Maul


Definition:

  • (n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
  • (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
  • (v. t.) To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
  • (2) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
  • (3) Increased risk of injury was related to the following factors: 98% of injuries occurred in matches and 81% were incurred by adults; 69% of injuries occurred in age-group A team or senior first team players; and 57% of injuries occurred in the tackle situation and 39% in scrums, rucks and mauls.
  • (4) And now it risks being mauled by the commission – if not over this, then over related matters.
  • (5) In March in New Jersey, Phillip White was filmed being mauled by a police dog, in an incident that led to his death.
  • (6) But after being mauled in the media for sartorial crimes – including a bright pink blazer and white shirt adorned with heart motifs – Hatoyama will be buoyed by the news that a Shanghai-based shirt-maker is selling copies of his most infamous garment as a tribute to his "individuality" .
  • (7) It was a tough kick, we weighed up the options, we wanted to go for the win, the two driving mauls before we made some good ground and we thought if we got in a good position we could go for a win.” Wales are bobbing in pool of death while England are not sunk just yet | Eddie Butler Read more So it goes.
  • (8) Publications: Cover Her Face 62; A Mind To Murder 63; Unnatural Causes 67; Shroud For A Nightingale 71; The Maul And The Pear Tree (with TA Critchley) 71; An Unsuitable Job For A Woman 72; The Black Tower 75; Death Of An Expert Witness 77; Innocent Blood 80; The Skull Beneath The Skin 82; A Taste For Death 86; Devices And Desires 89; The Children Of Men 92; Original Sin 94; A Certain Justice 97; Time To Be In Earnest (autobiography) 99.
  • (9) That person was crushed and mauled.” She sees the same guardedness in artists such as Beyoncé (“No wonder Beyoncé doesn’t really do interviews any more.
  • (10) Fatal and near-fatal maulings of humans by pit bulls have recently become a topic of major public concern, resulting in the passage of laws in some jurisdictions that make the owner of a pit bull criminally liable for manslaughter if his or her pet causes a human death.
  • (11) Carmen's enduring appeal Bizet never lived to enjoy Carmen's success – he died just three months after the critical mauling of its premiere.
  • (12) Meanwhile, Nick Clegg – talking tough after his mauling last week – has now signalled he thinks it folly to foist purse strings on those family doctors who are unwilling or unable to take them.
  • (13) A defiant Jeremy Corbyn told a rally of cheering activists on Saturday that he was still “fighting to win” the 8 June general election – despite admitting that Thursday’s mauling for Labour in local council elections had left the party with a mountain to climb.
  • (14) The team that had made no concession to the pragmatism of a knockout tournament finally succumbed and the New Zealand All Blacks staggered, mauling, tackling and grinding, to their first victory at the World Cup since 1987.
  • (15) There is the whole class of kimo‑kawaii , or “gross-cute”, epitomised by Gloomy, a pink bear whose claws are red with the blood of his child owner, whom he habitually mauls.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wales edge ahead in the the final quarter of their Rugby World Cup game against England at Twickenham on Saturday to beat the home team 25-28 “We had driven a couple of mauls well just before, but it was not to be.
  • (17) Looking as if it has suffered a severe mauling from a Rottweiler, the tower appears to have been ripped to pieces and stitched back together in the wrong way, standing as a monstrous Frankenstein concoction.
  • (18) It is six years, after all, since 2009, the year in which the comedian’s blossoming career and reputation took an abrupt and savage hit, thanks to his unloved eponymous sketch show with Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne (“ puerile and excruciating ”, according to the New Statesman), a critically mauled movie, Lesbian Vampire Killers (“a witless mess”, said the Telegraph), and a calamitous performance hosting the Brit awards with Horne, which even Corden has acknowledged was “shit, because of ego”.
  • (19) The 24-year-old woman was in the big cats' enclosure when she was mauled at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness.
  • (20) The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, Collins said.

Sledge


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
  • (n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
  • (n.) A sleigh.
  • (n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.
  • (v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
  • (v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The need for additional postoperative analgesia was seen earliest in the patients who received a knee prosthesis of the sledge type (P less than 0.05).
  • (2) The mechanical efficiencies (ME) of pure positive and pure negative work as well as of stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercise were investigated with a special sledge apparatus.
  • (3) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
  • (4) With a sledge cryomicrotome, we sectioned 273 lumbar facet joints in 38 adult cadavers and correlated the anatomic appearance of the joints with CT and magnetic resonance (MR) images.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Sister Sledge perform We Are Family It was fun, but challenging.
  • (6) Take in the views and then hire a sledge for the journey down the Schlittelweg.
  • (7) Half of the 27 sledge dogs at the station were found to carry coagulase-positive staphylococci but this did not appear to be of pathological significance to their human handlers.
  • (8) A consecutive prospective series of 102 knees (90 patients) had unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (St. Georg "sledge") between 1973 and 1979 for gonarthrosis, Stages 2-4.
  • (9) A child once asked me – and you know that kids ask difficult questions – he asked me, ‘Father, what did God do before he created the world?’” The audience, which included Franklin, Sister Sledge, Mark Wahlberg, the comedian Jim Gaffigan and other warm-up acts, laughed, and the pope continued with a smile.
  • (10) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
  • (11) First experiences in allo-arthroplastics of the knee with 82 Guepar- and 28 sledge protheses are reported.
  • (12) Detailed electromyographic (EMG) analysis of primarily triceps brachii muscle was carried out on subjects who performed 100 repeated and exhaustive stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercises on a special sledge apparatus incorporating a force plate.
  • (13) Between November 1985 and January 1986, three men manhauled sledges 875 miles, following Scott's original route to the South Pole.
  • (14) The fatigue contractions were performed on submaximal levels but the before-after comparison included also maximal "drop jumps" on the sledge as well as falls on to the floor.
  • (15) 'Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend': Nick Kyrgios sledges Stan Wawrinka Read more On a changeover during the second set of their match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Kyrgios told the world No5: “Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend, sorry to tell you that mate.” Wawrinka ignored the insult and withdrew in the third set with a back injury.
  • (16) The presented scheme of tissue treatment involving standard sledge microtome, acetone, thermostat heat provides 25-35 micron sections.
  • (17) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
  • (18) Over this time, I have completed six expeditions on the Arctic sea ice, sledge-hauling more than 1,500 miles and spending more than 223 days in temperatures well below zero.
  • (19) He told a story about a day when he was 12 years old, soon after he had lost a leg to bone cancer, when his father took him out sledging.
  • (20) The ad, which cost about £1m to make, features a young boy and what appears to be a real penguin playing together, going sledging, visiting the park and bouncing on the trampoline to the tune of John Lennon’s Real Love sung by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell, who was used by Burberry in its online Christmas film last year.

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