Usually means: Heavy club used for hitting.
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  1. cudgel: Merriam-Webster
  2. cudgel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cudgel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cudgel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cudgel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cudgel, cudgel: Wordnik
  7. cudgel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cudgel: Wiktionary
  9. cudgel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cudgel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cudgel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cudgel, cudgel: Dictionary.com
  13. cudgel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cudgel (horse), Cudgel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cudgel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cudgel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cudgel: Rhymezone
  18. Cudgel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cudgel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cudgel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cudgel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cudgel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cudgel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cudgel: Legal dictionary

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  1. CUDGEL: Acronym Finder
  2. cudgel: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cudgel)

▸ noun:  A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
▸ verb:  To strike with a cudgel.
▸ verb:  To exercise (one's wits or brains).

Similar:
truncheon, bludgeon, club, crabstick, stick, gavelock, billy club, cuttle, crab stick, pestle, more...

Opposite:
unarmed, defenseless, vulnerable, weak

Types:
nightstick, truncheon, baton, club, mace, more...

Phrases:
cudgel play, cudgel one's brains, cudgel ones brains, to cudgel one's brains, to cudgel ones brains, more...

Adjectives:
stout, heavy, good, thick, great, huge, wooden, short, blackthorn, large, long

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    brown,     dark brown,     mahogany,     chestnut,     walnut, more...
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Similar:
truncheon, bludgeon, club, crabstick, stick, gavelock, billy club, cuttle, crab stick, pestle, more...

Opposite:
unarmed, defenseless, vulnerable, weak

Types:
nightstick, truncheon, baton, club, mace, more...

Phrases:
cudgel play, cudgel one's brains, cudgel ones brains, to cudgel one's brains, to cudgel ones brains, cudgel one's brain, Cudgel War, The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack, more...

Adjectives:
stout, heavy, good, thick, great, huge, wooden, short, blackthorn, large, long

Colors:
    brown,     dark brown,     mahogany,     chestnut,     walnut, more...



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