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cudgel
(encz) | cudgel,klacek n: Zdeněk Brož |
cudgel
(encz) | cudgel,palice n: Zdeněk Brož |
Cudgel
(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.
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He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . .
falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. --Bunyan.
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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).
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Cudgel
(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.
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An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak.
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To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.
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cudgel
(wn) | cudgel
n 1: a club that is used as a weapon
v 1: strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate] |
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cudgel
(encz) | cudgel,klacek n: Zdeněk Brožcudgel,palice n: Zdeněk Brož |
take up cudgels
(encz) | take up cudgels, |
Cudgel play
(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).
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Cudgeled
(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.
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An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak.
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To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.
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Cudgeler
(gcide) | Cudgeler \Cudg"el*er\ (-?r), n.
One who beats with a cudgel. [Written also cudgeller.]
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Cudgeling
(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.
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An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak.
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To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.
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Cudgelled
(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.
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To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.
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cudgeller
(gcide) | Cudgeler \Cudg"el*er\ (-?r), n.
One who beats with a cudgel. [Written also cudgeller.]
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cudgelling
(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.
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An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak.
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To cudgel one's brains, to exercise one's wits.
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To cross the cudgels
(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).
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