cudgel

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With this disillusioned preface, he sets out on the recital of the great fights and fighters from James Figg, master of "the Foil, Backsword, Cudgel, and Fist" to the redoubtable Dempsey.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cudgel his brains though he might, Harry could not remember Dumbledore ever mentioning a place in which he might hide something.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

And as 'tis said a Parlous Ass once spoke, When Crab-tree Cudgel did his rage provoke, &c.

From Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Krutch, Joseph Wood

Safe in thy Weakness, thou defi’st a Foe; E’en k Cibber’s Cudgel scorn’d to stoop so low.

From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Guerinot, J. V. (Joseph V.)

What wou'd you have for de Gentlemen, de Cudgel for de Gentlemen?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague