Associations to the word «Pugil»

Wiktionary

PUGIL, noun. (obsolete) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers.
PUGIL STICK, noun. A padded pole-like weapon used for military training for rifle and bayonet combat.
PUGIL STICKS, noun. Plural of pugil stick

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