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cudgel (n.)
Old English
cycgel
"club with rounded head;" perhaps from PIE root
*geu-
"to curve, bend."
cudgel (v.)
"to beat with a cudgel," 1590s, from
cudgel
(n.). Related:
Cudgeled
;
cudgeling
.