English

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�d��l|-�d��l

Etymology
Middle English kuggel, from Old English cycgel, perhaps cognate with German Kugel "ball"

Noun
en-noun

1. a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon

#: The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly at the inmates, the threat to swing glinted in his eye.

Synonyms
club

Translations

Dutch: knuppel
Finnish: nuija, ryhmysauva
mid
Korean: �몽�� (soe-mongdungI), 철� (��, cheoltoe)
Old Norse: klubba c
Swedish: klubba c, påk c

Verb
en-verb|cudgels|cudgeling or (UK) cudgelling|cudgeled or (UK) cudgelled|cudgeled or (UK) cudgelled

1. to strike someone with a cudgel

#: The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.

fr:cudgel
io:cudgel
fi:cudgel
te:cudgel
vi:cudgel
zh:cudgel

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