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| | Cudgeler | n. One who beats with a cudgel. [ Written also cudgeller. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Cudgel | 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 | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cudgeled or Cudgelled 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 ]
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| | | cudgel | (คัด'เจิล) { cudgeled, cudgeling, cudgels } n. ตะบอง vt. ตีด้วยตะบอง |
| | cudgel | (n) ดิ้ว, กระบอง, ตะบอง | | cudgel | (vt) ตีด้วยดิ้ว, นวด, ตีด้วยกระบอง |
| | | | | | Cudgel | 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 | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cudgeled or Cudgelled 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 ]
| | Cudgeler | n. One who beats with a cudgel. [ Written also cudgeller. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
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