It will scarcely be any easier on the people if the cudgel with which they are beaten is called the people's cudgel.
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Cudgel
//ˈkʌd͡ʒəl//
Synonyms for "cudgel" (78 found)
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61 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῥόπαλον noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Armenian
1 entries- մահակ noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Bashkir
1 entries- суҡмар noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Bats
1 entries- კომპალ noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сопа noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Czech
1 entries- kyj noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Danish
1 entries- knippel noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Dutch
1 entries- knuppel noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Finnish
4 entries- ase noun (anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will)
- nuija noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- ryhmysauva noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- nuijia verb (to strike with a cudgel)
French
1 entries- gourdin noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Galician
1 entries- moca noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
German
1 entries- Knüppel noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Greek
1 entries- ρόπαλο noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Hungarian
4 entries- bunkósbot noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- furkósbot noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- fütykös noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- husáng noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Icelandic
2 entries- kylfa noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- lurkur noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Ido
1 entries- bastono noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Irish
2 entries- cleith noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- smachtín noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Italian
2 entries- bastone noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- randello noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Korean
1 entries- 몽둥이 noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Latin
3 entries- caia noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- clāva noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- fūstis noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Māori
1 entries- hauhau noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Occitan
2 entries- barròt noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- tavèla noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Ojibwe
1 entries- bagamaagan noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Old Norse
1 entries- klubba noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- صوپه noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- كوتك noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- چوماق noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Persian
2 entries- چماق noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- گوپال noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Pruntel noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Polish
4 entries- maczuga noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- maczuga noun (anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will)
- pałka noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- uderzać pałką verb (to strike with a cudgel)
Portuguese
1 entries- bordão noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Russian
1 entries- дуби́нка noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- batina noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- buzdovan noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- močuga noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- toljaga noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Spanish
1 entries- mazo noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Swedish
2 entries- klubba noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
- påk noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Tagalog
1 entries- pambatikos noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Udi
1 entries- кӏовал noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Welsh
1 entries- pastwn noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- kud-jee-run noun (short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The first is a dish licker, the second a lice-killing cudgel. They pinch, when they are together. What could it be, by chance?
Source: tatoeba (10932849)
You don't care about Tom. You're only using him as a cudgel to beat John with.
Source: tatoeba (11096374)
The ogre brandished a crude cudgel.
Source: tatoeba (11450956)
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