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CUDGEL

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Irregular inflected forms: cudgelled    , cudgelling   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A club that is used as a weapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cudgel" is a kind of...):

club (stout stick that is larger at one end)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cudgel"):

bastinado (a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet)

shillalah; shillelagh (a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn))

Derivation:

cudgel (strike with a cudgel)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike with a cudgel

Synonyms:

cudgel; fustigate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "cudgel" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cudgel (a club that is used as a weapon)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Stand!” he shouted, raising his heavy cudgel to enforce the order.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The method I contrived was this: I prepared two round sticks, about the bigness of common cudgels; they were thicker at one end than the other, and I covered the thicker ends with pieces of a mouse’s skin, that by rapping on them I might neither damage the tops of the keys nor interrupt the sound.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then the manikin fell on them like lightning, darting this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his cudgel fell to earth, and did not venture to stir again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I cannot bear it, I, and so my trusty Raoul goes ever before me with a cudgel to drive them from my path.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the soldier pulled out his pipe and lighted it at the blue light, and as soon as a few wreaths of smoke had ascended, the manikin was there with a small cudgel in his hand, and said: What does my lord command?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We are all freemen, and I trow that a yeoman's cudgel is as good as a forester's knife.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But Sultan had told his master what the wolf meant to do; so he laid wait for him behind the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him finely.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Alleyne doffed hat and bowed head at the sight of him, but the serf folded his hands and leaned them upon his cudgel, looking with little love at the knot of nobles and knights-in-waiting who rode behind the king.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no need, however, for him to move, for the twain came swiftly towards them until they were within a spear's length, when the man with the cross sat himself down sullenly upon a tussock of grass by the wayside, while the other stood beside him with his great cudgel still hanging over his head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bishop hath need of a champion, because, if any cause be set to test of combat, it would scarce become his office to go down into the lists with leather and shield and cudgel to exchange blows with any varlet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)