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[noun] a club that is used as a weapon
[verb] strike with a cudgel
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\Cudg"el\ (k?j"?l), 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. 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 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).
\Cudg"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cudgeled} or {Cudgelled} (-?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cudgeling} or {cudgelling}.] To beat with a cudgel. An he here, I would cudgel him like a dog. --Shak. {To cudgel one's brains}, to exercise one's wits.

See also: bastinado | club | hit | shillalah | shillelagh |

Related terms: baste, bastinado, bat, baton, beat, belabor, belt, billy, billy club, birch, blackjack, bludgeon, buffet, cane, club, clue, cosh, cowhide, cue, cut, drub, ferule, flagellate, flail, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hickory, horsewhip, indication, inkling, intimation, knobkerrie, knout, lace, lash, lay on, mace, nightstick, notion, paddle, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quarterstaff, rattan, rawhide, rod, sandbag, scourge, shillelagh, smite, spank, spontoon, strap, stripe, suggestion, swinge, switch, telltale, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, war club, whale, whip, whop, wind

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Let's analyse "cudgel" as pure text. This string has Six letters in Two syllables and Two vowels. 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: LEGDUC. Average typing speed for these characters is 1680 milliseconds. [info]

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Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: cudgel: 3 + 5 = 8, reduced: 8 . and the final result is Eight.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: cudgel: 3 + 3 + 4 + 7 + 5 + 3 = 25, reduced: 7, and the final result is Seven.

Tarot cards

Letter Num. Tarot c. Intensity Meaning
C (1) 3 Empress Patient, Willful, Strong, Giving
D (1) 4 Emperor Determined, Persistant, Idealist
E (1) 5 Hierophant Wise, Crafty, Daring, Inventive
G (1) 7 Chariot Strong, Sturdy, Decisive
L (1) 12 Hanged Man Leader, Teacher, Healer, Decisive
U (1) 21 World Gifted, Generous, Bountiful

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