CUDGEL (cudgelled, cudgelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: cudgelled    , cudgelling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cudgel mean? 

• CUDGEL (noun)
  The noun CUDGEL has 1 sense:

1. a club that is used as a weapon

  Familiarity information: CUDGEL used as a noun is very rare.

• CUDGEL (verb)
  The verb CUDGEL has 1 sense:

1. strike with a cudgel

  Familiarity information: CUDGEL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUDGEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A club that is used as a weapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cudgel" is a kind of...):

club (stout stick that is larger at one end)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cudgel"):

bastinado (a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet)

shillalah; shillelagh (a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn))

Derivation:

cudgel (strike with a cudgel)

• CUDGEL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cudgel    ... he / she / it cudgels   
Past simple: cudgeled    / cudgelled   
Past participle: cudgeled    / cudgelled   
-ing form: cudgeling    / cudgelling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike with a cudgel

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cudgel; fustigate

Hypernyms (to "cudgel" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cudgel (a club that is used as a weapon)

 Context examples 

“You may find the scath yourself, my lusty friend, if you raise your great cudgel to me. I had as lief have the castle drawbridge drop upon my pate.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cudgelled my brains until I fell asleep in the endeavour to find some explanation which would cover all these facts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cudgelled my brains to find some possible explanation.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But just as the wedding was going to be solemnized, old Mr Fox stirred under the bench, and cudgelled all the rabble, and drove them and Mrs Fox out of the house.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Two weeks had passed since Martin had seen him, and he vainly cudgelled his brains for some cause of offence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was dressed in nightshirt and trousers, with his favourite blackthorn cudgel in his hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of them I beat over the head with the butt of the whip, so that he dropped the cudgel with which he was about to strike me; then lashing the horse, I shook off the others and got safely away.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But one day, I took a thick cudgel, and threw it with all my strength so luckily, at a linnet, that I knocked him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hands, ran with him in triumph to my nurse.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This morning, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed cudgelling my brains, I heard without a cracking of whips and pounding and scraping of horses' feet up the rocky path beyond the courtyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His hand was on my throat and my senses were nearly gone before an unshaven French ouvrier in a blue blouse darted out from a cabaret opposite, with a cudgel in his hand, and struck my assailant a sharp crack over the forearm, which made him leave go his hold.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)