'Cudgel' definitions:
Definition of 'cudgel'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Cudgel'
From: GCIDE
- Cudgel \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. [1913 Webster]
- He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
- 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). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cudgel'
From: GCIDE
- Cudgel \Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cudgeled or Cudgelled (-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cudgeling or cudgelling.] To beat with a cudgel. [1913 Webster]
- An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cudgel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- baste,
- bastinado,
- bat,
- baton,
- beat,
- belabor,
- belt,
- billy,
- billy club,
- birch,
- blackjack,
- bludgeon,
- buffet,
- cane,
- club,
- clue,
- cosh,
- cowhide,
- cue,
- cut,
- drub,
- ferule,
- flagellate,
- flail,
- flog,
- fustigate,
- give a whipping,
- give the stick,
- hickory,
- horsewhip,
- indication,
- inkling,
- intimation,
- knobkerrie,
- knout,
- lace,
- lash,
- lay on,
- mace,
- nightstick,
- notion,
- paddle,
- pistol-whip,
- pommel,
- pummel,
- quarterstaff,
- rattan,
- rawhide,
- rod,
- sandbag,
- scourge,
- shillelagh,
- smite,
- spank,
- spontoon,
- strap,
- stripe,
- suggestion,
- swinge,
- switch,
- telltale,
- thrash,
- thump,
- trounce,
- truncheon,
- wallop,
- war club,
- whale,
- whip,
- whop,
- wind