Today's Word "cudgel"
A short heavy stick used as a weapon
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cudgel \KUH-juhl\ (noun) - A short heavy stick used as a weapon; a club.
(transitive verb) - To beat with or as if with a cudgel.
"Whatever had been making her dogs uneasy, she'd have to handle it on her own. Rosie Bowe took a heavy piece of firewood as a cudgel and followed them." -- Jim Crace, 'Signals of Distress'
Cudgel derives from Old English cycgel.
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