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CUDGEL
cudgel
(noun) a club that is used as a weapon
cudgel, fustigate
(verb) strike with a cudgel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cudgel (plural cudgels)
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
(figurative) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
Verb
cudgel (third-person singular simple present cudgels, present participle (UK) cudgelling or (US) cudgeling, simple past and past participle (UK) cudgelled or (US) cudgeled)
To strike with a cudgel.
To exercise (one's wits or brains).
Anagrams
• cludge
Source: Wiktionary
Cudg"el (kj"l), n. Etym: [OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.]
Definition: 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 (-; p. pr. & vb. n. Cudgeling or cudgelling.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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