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Cudgel Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Cudgel? [n] a club that is used as a weapon [v] strike with a cudgel Synonyms \| Synonyms for Cudgel: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Cudgel: baste \| bastinado \| bat \| baton \| beat \| belabor \| belt \| billy \| billy club \| birch \| blackjack \| bludgeon \| buffet \| cane \| club \| clue \| cosh \| cowhide \| cue \| cut \| drub \| ferule \| flagellate \| flail \| flog \| fustigate \| give a whipping \| give the stick \| hickory \| horsewhip \| indication \| inkling \| intimation \| knobkerrie \| knout \| lace \| lash \| lay on \| mace \| nightstick \| notion \| paddle \| pistol-whip \| pommel \| pummel \| quarterstaff \| rattan \| rawhide \| rod \| sandbag \| scourge \| shillelagh \| smite \| spank \| spontoon \| strap \| stripe \| suggestion \| swinge \| switch \| telltale \| thrash \| thump \| trounce \| truncheon \| wallop \| war club \| whale \| whip \| whop \| wind See Also \| bastinado \| club \| hit \| shillalah \| shillelagh Cudgel In Webster's Dictionary \Cudg"el\ (k?j"?l), n. [OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.] A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. --Bunyan. {Cudgel play}, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. {To cross the cudgels}, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended. {To take up cudgels for}, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something). \Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cudgeled} or {Cudgelled} (-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cudgeling} or {cudgelling}.] To beat with a cudgel. An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak. {To cudgel one's brains}, to exercise one's wits.

Cudgel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cudgel?

[n] a club that is used as a weapon
[v] strike with a cudgel

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Cudgel In Webster's Dictionary

\Cudg"el\ (k?j"?l), n. [OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club
(with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or
D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.]
A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff,
and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a
weapon.

      He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . .
      falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. --Bunyan.

{Cudgel play}, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels.

{To cross the cudgels}, to forbear or give up the contest; --
   a phrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who
   lay one cudgel over another when the contest is ended.

{To take up cudgels for}, to engage in a contest in behalf of
   (some one or something).


\Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cudgeled} or {Cudgelled}
(-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cudgeling} or {cudgelling}.]
To beat with a cudgel.

      An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak.

{To cudgel one's brains}, to exercise one's wits.

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