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cudgel
noun
    1. A heavy stick or club used as a weapon.
      Thesaurus: club, bludgeon, baton, shillelagh, truncheon.
verb
    cudgelled, cudgelling
    1. To beat with a cudgel.
      Thesaurus: beat, pummel, clobber, bludgeon, pound, maul, cane, drub, thrash.
Idiom: cudgel one's brains
    To struggle to remember or solve something.
Idiom: take up the cudgels for someone
    To fight for or defend them vigorously.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon cycgel.



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