Definition of cudgel

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Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..

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Swaddlebill :: Swaddle (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.
Bang :: Bang (v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly..
Cudgeler :: Cudgeler (n.) One who beats with a cudgel.
Cockshy :: Cockshy (n.) A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks..
Belabor :: Belabor (v. t.) To beat soundly; to cudgel.
Waster :: Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil..
Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword..
Drub :: Drub (n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump.
Cudgeling :: Cudgeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cudge.
Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..
Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..
Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling..
Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Bat :: Bat (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
Fustigate :: Fustigate (v. t.) To cudgel.
Cudgel :: Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..
Mauling :: Mauling (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist..
Maul :: Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Cudgelling :: Cudgelling () of Cudge.
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