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A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. Bunyan. Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. -- To cross the cudgels, to fo…

One who beats with a cudgel. [Written also cudgeller.]

A cudgel. [Obs.] Shak.

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak.

To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

A blow with a stick or cudgel.

A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] "To fight with blunt bastons." Holland.

To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.

." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel. But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. Shak.

ayers; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. [Obs.] Garrick.

A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.

To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.

To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.

A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

e he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner. Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul. Pope.

A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.