Cudgel
['kʌdʒ(ə)l] or ['kʌdʒl]
Definition
(noun.) a club that is used as a weapon.
(verb.) strike with a cudgel.
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Definition
(n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
(v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Club, bludgeon.
v. a. Cane, drub, thrash, baste, beat with a cudgel.
Typist: Xavier
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pound, bruise, buffet, batter
ANT:Stroke, pat, clap, tickle
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Definition
n. a heavy staff: a club.—v.t. to beat with a cudgel:—pr.p. cud′gelling; pa.p. cud′gelled.—ns. Cud′geller; Cud′gelling.—adj. Cud′gel-proof not to be hurt by beating.—Take up the cudgels to engage in a contest.
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Examples
- Running, wrestling, cudgel-playing, throwing the javelin, drawing the bow, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He was now too close upon me for the cudgel to prove of any effective assistance, so I merely threw it as heavily as I could at his advancing bulk. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I kept straight on, with my cudgel ready in my hand, my ears on the alert, and my eyes straining to see through the mist and the darkness. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I got on his back, with my cudgel in my mouth, seized the parapet with both hands, and was instantly on the roof. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is true I held the cudgel, but what could I do with it against his four great arms? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This other, which was evidently its mate, soon came toward us, bearing a mighty stone cudgel with which it evidently intended to brain me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Cudgel your brains for an expedient. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The yeomen guard the streets in seemly bands; And clowns come crowding on, with cudgels in their hands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I cudgelled my brains until I fell asleep in the endeavor to find some explanation which would cover all these facts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I cudgelled my brains to find some possible explanation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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