Mawle vs Maple - What's the difference?
mawle | maple |
A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
* 1786 : A Mawle of lead five feet long, and a pike with the same hanging by a girdle with a hook, is recommended by Ralph Smith for the arms of an archer, it has been quoted at length, under the article of the long bow. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 52.
A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
