cudgel

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 Anagrams

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cycgel; cf. Middle Dutch cōghele 'stick with a round end', German Kugel 'ball', Old High German coccho 'rounded ship'; akin to Lithuanian gugà 'pommel, hump, hill'.

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌdʒəl

[edit] Noun

cudgel (plural cudgels)

1. 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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• club

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[edit] Verb

to cudgel (third-person singular simple present cudgels, present participle cudgeling or (UK) cudgelling, simple past and past participle cudgeled or (UK) cudgelled)

1. to strike someone with a cudgel

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

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: cdeglu
• cludge