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From: "Jacqui Simkins" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] : Don't MAUL the Cat
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:56:10 -0000
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I believe that marl relates to "marl pits" or "clay pits"...we used to have
a field at farm where my grandparents were called the Marl Close - it had an
old clay pit in it. I would have thought a map would show something
permanent, not the annual treatment of fertiliser.

I cannot think any farmer or gardener would say "marled" when they meant
they had given the ground a good layer of muck - or for those more
delicately inclined "manure".

But I am frequently wrong...!!!!

Jacqui

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Pointon" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:35 PM
Subject: RE: [CHS] : Don't MAUL the Cat


> Whatever the relationships of the other words mentioned by Ricky, "marl"
> certainly is different from them - the letter -r- in the
> middle makes that clear.
> Graham
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [CHS] : Don't MAUL the Cat
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>
> Hi Listers,
> I have been mulling over the recent "List" definition of the word
> MAULE
> as a Hammer.
> I first came across the word as an instruction from my Mother "Not to
> handle
> the Cat in an inappropriate manner." (lol) This meaning was strengthened
> in
> my Comics which referred to Wrestlers as MAULERS. OK so it could be an
> adjective or a verb.
> My Grandfather was a sign writer and he used sticks with balls on the end,
> which he called MAULS (also spelled as MAALS, MAHLS from the Dutch word
> paint)
> My GreatGrandfather was a gardener and he used MARL as a fertiliser (on an
> old map of Alderley Edge there is an area marked as "Marled Field")
> Then there is the shopping MALL which comes from Pall Mall in London,
> which
> derives from the French Pele Mele (which was a riotous game played in an
> alley).
> The English archers at Agincourt carried Lead Maules, which were short
> handled hammers.
> These tools were meant to drive in stakes to protect the archers, but were
> used in the latter stages of the battle to "cull the French knights".
> So MAUL could be an adjective, verb or object.
> My ancestor's inventory of 1611 lists "Item one Mouler", I wonder what
> that
> is ?
> Ricky Cooper.
>
>
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