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cudgel 音標拼音: [k'ʌdʒəl] n. 棍棒
vt. 用棍棒打 棍棒用棍棒打 cudgel n 1: a club that is used as a weapon v 1: strike with a cudgel [ synonym: { cudgel}, { fustigate}] Cudgel \ Cudg" el\ ( k? j"? l), n. [ OE. kuggel; cf. G. keule club ( with a round end), kugel ball, or perh. W. cogyl cudgel, or D. cudse, kuds, cudgel.] A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. [ 1913 Webster] He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. -- Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster] { Cudgel play}, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. { 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. { To take up cudgels for}, to engage in a contest in behalf of ( some one or something). [ 1913 Webster]
Cudgel \ Cudg" el\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Cudgeled} or { Cudgelled} (-? ld); p. pr. & vb. n. { Cudgeling} or { cudgelling}.] To beat with a cudgel. [ 1913 Webster] An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { To cudgel one' s brains}, to exercise one' s wits. [ 1913 Webster] 71 Moby Thesaurus words for " cudgel": baste, bastinado, bat, baton, beat, belabor, belt, billy, billy club, birch, blackjack, bludgeon, buffet, cane, club, clue, cosh, cowhide, cue, cut, drub, ferule, flagellate, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hickory, horsewhip, indication, inkling, intimation, knobkerrie, knout, lace, lash, lay on, mace, nightstick, notion, paddle, pistol- whip, pommel, pummel, quarterstaff, rattan, rawhide, rod, sandbag, scourge, shillelagh, smite, spank, spontoon, strap, stripe, suggestion, swinge, switch, telltale, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, war club, whale, whip, whop, wind
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