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Definitions for: Cudgel
[n] a club that is used as a weapon
[v] strike with a cudgel
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
See Also: bastinado, club, hit, shillalah, shillelagh
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