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cudgel

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nounbaton for hitting

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With high mandatory sentences as a cudgel, prosecutors pervasively threaten defendants with draconian charges that could lead to years of imprisonment.

A FED-UP JUDGE CONDEMNS THE INEQUITIES IN AMERICA’S LEGAL SYSTEMMICHAEL BOBELIANFEBRUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POST

That be it as it may, this cudgel that is used to make this man we can call The Mark feel like he’s lucky to be where he is, is actually working since he clearly feels bad about where he might be.

WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOUR WIFE SAYS SHE SLEPT WITH GEORGE CLOONEYEUGENE ROBINSONDECEMBER 8, 2020OZY

That's the very way we lost the battle:—for had the two parties never met, depend on't, one had never cudgel'd the other.

THE BATTLE OF HEXHAM;GEORGE COLMAN

The higher classes have generally handsome pistols or great knives, the others content themselves with a good cudgel.

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZILMARIA GRAHAM

Behind him on the roof of one of the houses we saw a man with a long cudgel which he shook at the monkey.

KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJI

He still carried his cane, but he had no use for it, save to clutch it in one hand more after the manner of a cudgel than a cane.

THE RIVAL CAMPERSRUEL PERLEY SMITH

I am about to fulfil a great act of justice by braining you with my cudgel like a wolf caught in a trap.

THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUE

Thereupon, placing himself before them, his heavy cudgel in hand, he made ready for a desperate defence.