Synonyms of cudgels

cudgels 1 of 2

noun

plural of cudgel

as in batons

a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment

a farmer armed with a cudgel drove us off his land

Synonyms & Similar Words

• batons
• canes
• truncheons
• bludgeons
• mallets
• staves
• nightsticks
• bats
• maces
• rods
• hammers
• shillelaghs
• staffs
• billies
• billy clubs
• clubs
• bastinadoes
• shillalahs
• saps
• waddies
• bastinades
• rungs
• staves
• blackjacks
• knobkerries
• sledgehammers
• mauls
• rattans
• hickories
• birches
• beetles
• croziers
• gavels
• switches
• crooks
• crosiers
• walking sticks
• crabsticks
• whangees

cudgels

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verb

present tense third-person singular of cudgel

as in chops

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chops
• whacks
• clouts
• socks
• thwacks
• boxes
• bludgeons
• hammers
• smacks
• knocks
• slaps
• attacks
• assaults
• assails
• descends (on or upon)
• spanks
• punches
• swats
• swipes
• clubs
• slams
• cuffs
• rushes
• hits
• raids
• whams
• lams
• besets
• smashes
• paddles
• mauls
• whips
• clobbers
• pummels
• jumps (on)
• wallops
• slates
• thumps
• belts
• whomps
• storms
• pastes
• bats
• whaps
• licks
• lambasts
• bashes
• pelts
• thrashes
• drubs
• tans
• lathers
• canes
• cracks
• belabors
• works over
• lays on
• batters
• buffets
• threshes
• lashes
• whales
• flogs
• punches out
• pounds
• horsewhips
• busts
• roughs (up)
• hides
• lambastes
• pommels
• scourges
• switches
• pounces (on or upon)
• curries
• laces
• leathers
• flagellates
• tromps
• lacerates
• whups
• fibs
• slogs
• bastes
• straps
• blackjacks
• whops
• messes (up)
• birches
• wounds
• beats
• does
• pistol-whips
• gores
• bungs up
• cowhides
• mangles
• rawhides
• maims
• fustigates
• mutilates