cudgel : Idioms & Phrases
Cudgel play
- a fight or sportive contest with cudgels.
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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.
Webster 1913
To cudgel one's brains
- to exercise one's wits.
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To take up cudgels for
- to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).
