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cudgels

cudgels is the plural of cudgel.

cudgels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cudgel.

Meaning of cudgel

Noun

cudgel (plural cudgels)

  1. A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
    • The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates.
  2. (figuratively) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
    • As above said, legibility depends also much on the design of the letter; and again I take up the cudgels against compressed type, and that especially in Roman letters: […]1893, William Morris, The Ideal Book, published 1908

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Phrases with cudgels

Questions about cudgels

What is cudgels the plural of?
Cudgels is the plural of cudgel.

Words near cudgels in the dictionary

  1. cudgellers
  2. cudgelling
  3. cudgelling one's brain
  4. cudgelling one's brains
  5. cudgellings
  6. cudgels
  7. cudgels one's brain
  8. cudgels one's brains
  9. Cudgen
  10. Cudgera Creek
  11. cudgerie

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