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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cudgel
    n 1: a club that is used as a weapon
    v 1: strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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Thesaurus Results for Cudgel:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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