: a short heavy club
The eighteenth-century audience went to the theatre armed with whistles, rattles, … and sometimes even wooden cudgels.—Ronald Hayman
cudgeled or cudgelled; cudgeling or cudgelling
ˈkəj-liŋ
ˈkə-jə-
: to beat with or as if with a cudgel
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