cudgel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a club that is used as a weapon
  2. verb strike with a cudgel
    fustigate.

WordNet

Cudg"el noun
Etymology
OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club (with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.
Definitions
  1. A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
    He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. Bunyan.
Cudg"el transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Cudgeled or Cudgelled present participle & verbal noun Cudgeling or cudgelling
Definitions
  1. To beat with a cudgel.
    An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. Shak.

Webster 1913