cudgel
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- Rhymes: -ʌdʒəl
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Middle English kuggel, from Old English cycgel, perhaps cognate with German Kugel "ball"
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cudgel (plural cudgels)
- 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.
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to cudgel (third-person singular simple present cudgels, present participle cudgeling or (UK) cudgelling, simple past and past participle cudgeled or (UK) cudgelled)
- to strike someone with a cudgel
- The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.

