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cudgel
noun
- 1. A heavy stick or club used as a weapon.
- Thesaurus: club, bludgeon, baton, shillelagh, truncheon.
- cudgelled, cudgelling
1. To beat with a cudgel.
- Thesaurus: beat, pummel, clobber, bludgeon, pound, maul, cane, drub, thrash.
- To struggle to remember or solve something.
- To fight for or defend them vigorously.
