About The Word Cudgel
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Cudgel
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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. |
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