Cudgel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates.”

2. isim 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: […]”

3. fiil To strike with a cudgel.

   “The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.”

4. fiil To exercise (one's wits or brains) in an effort to force a memory or solution; to rack (one's mind).

   ““Most remarkable,” murmured Tarzan, cudgeling his brain for some pretext upon which to turn the subject.”

5. özel isim A locality in the Leeton council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.