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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Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..
Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Waster :: Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil..
Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Crabstick :: Crabstick (n.) A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree..
Drub :: Drub (n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump.
Drub :: Drub (v. t.) To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Crab :: Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
Cudgeler :: Cudgeler (n.) One who beats with a 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..
Swaddlebill :: Swaddle (v. t.) To beat; to 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..
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..
Fustigate :: Fustigate (v. t.) To cudgel.
Cudgel :: Cudgel (v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
Maul :: Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
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..
Baste :: Baste (v. t.) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Shillelah :: Shillelah (n.) An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks..
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