In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CUDGELS
Noun
cudgels
plural of cudgel
Verb
cudgels
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cudgel
Anagrams
• cludges
Source: Wiktionary
CUDGEL
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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