Associations to the word «Cudgelling»

Wiktionary

CUDGEL, noun. A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
CUDGEL, noun. (metaphoric) Anything that can be used as a threat to force ones will on another.
CUDGEL, verb. To strike with a cudgel.
CUDGEL, verb. To exercise (one's wits or brains).

Dictionary definition

CUDGEL, noun. A club that is used as a weapon.
CUDGEL, verb. Strike with a cudgel.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope