noun, verb
noun a short thick stick that is used as a weapon
IDIOMS
take up (the) cudgels on behalf of sb/sth (old-fashioned, written) to defend or support sb/sth strongly
verb (BrE) (-ll-, AmE also -l-) [VN] to hit sb with a cudgel
IDIOMS
cudgel your brains (old-fashioned, BrE) to think very hard:
I had to cudgel my brains to remember her name.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cudgel is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does cudgel appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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