cudgel

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a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon

The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly at the inmates, the threat to swing glinted in his eye.

to strike someone with a cudgel

The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.

a short thick stick used as a club
{n} a thick stick, a fighting-stick
{v} to beat with a cudgel, beat, bang
{i} club, bludgeon, tool used to administer beatings
If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them. The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant
To beat with a cudgel
strike with a cudgel
A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon
a club that is used as a weapon strike with a cudgel
{f} club, beat, bludgeon, hit with a club
A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon
a club that is used as a weapon
cudgel one's brains
{f} think hard, try to remember, attempt to comprehend
take up the cudgel for
To make a defense for in lieu of another person
to cudgel
{v} cane
A cudgel
ballow
To cudgel
fustigate
cudgels
third-person singular of cudgel
cudgels
plural of cudgel
cudgel
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