Usually means: Beating with a heavy club.
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  1. cudgelling: Merriam-Webster
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  3. cudgelling: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. cudgelling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cudgelling: Wiktionary
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  9. Cudgelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Cudgelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. cudgelling: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ noun:  A beating with a cudgel.

Similar:
bastinado, bastinade, caning, pummelling, drubbing, whacking, battering, clobbering, cuffing, bludgeoning, more...

Opposite:
uncudgelling, sparing, sparingly hitting

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Similar:
bastinado, bastinade, caning, pummelling, drubbing, whacking, battering, clobbering, cuffing, bludgeoning, more...

Opposite:
uncudgelling, sparing, sparingly hitting



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