Cudgels

Word CUDGELS
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Definitions and meanings of "Cudgels"

What do we mean by cudgels?

A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.

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The word "cudgels" in example sentences

This he took for a favour, and so laid down the cudgels, that is to say, the pen; I say, he took if for a favour, and a mighty one it was, if he had known all. ❋ Unknown (2003)

NCRS, policing pledge, detection drives, all are blunt instruments used to produce skewed statistics to show our success or cudgels to beat those who ‘fail’ to impress the heirachy. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

On the floor of the Senate, Orrin Hatch of Utah took up the cudgels to berate the president about the Gospels. ❋ Clay Farris Naff (2012)

Still the two most traditional English weapons are fists and cudgels and frankly if I had to fight somebody and was given the choice of Scout knife or cudgel, I'd take the stick! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Both had cudgels in their hands, ready to batter the intruder. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

Seamen stepped forward, cutlasses and cudgels raised. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

Swords rose from scabbards and cudgels from belts. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

Not one man but two armed with cudgels have spotted us from the High Street and are sprinting toward the footpath. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

Decades ago, Wilson had taken up cudgels to promote kin selection as a powerful explanation of “eusociality”—this is the term used to describe social insects and other animals that engage in the cooperative care of their young. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

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