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▪ I. pugil1 arch.|ˈpjuːdʒɪl|
[ad. L. pugill-us a handful, f. root pug- as in pug-nus fist.]
Etymologically, A handful; but from the 17th century defined as ‘as much as can be taken up between the thumb and the next two (or sometimes three) fingers’; a little handful or big pinch.
1576Baker Jewell of Health 237 b, Gave a certain Phisition..of this salt one lytle handfull or Pugill. 1626Bacon Sylva §17 Take Violets, and infuse a good Pugill of them in a Quart of Vineger. 1729Enquiry Causes Epid. Dis. 42 Take of Roman Wormwood two Pugils (a Pugil is what two Fingers and a Thumb hold). 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1765) 68 Add two Pugils of dry'd Elder Flowers. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. iv, The old gentleman..opened it [a snuff-box] and felt for the wonted pugil.
▪ II. † ˈpugil2 Obs. rare.
[a. L. pugil a boxer, f. root pug-: see prec.]
One who fights with his fists; a boxer, pugilist.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xi. 207 That which expresseth pugills, that is, men fit for combat and the exercise of the fist. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. §44 (1692) 37 He was no little one, but Saginati corporis bellua, as Curtius says of Dioxippus the Pugil.
Hence † ˈpugilar a., pugilistic.
1636Sanderson Serm. on Ps. xix. 13 ⁋37 So doth St. Pauls ὑποπιάζω, 1 Cor. 9. which is an athletique pugilar word: as those that beat one another with their fists.
▪ III. pugil3 U.S. Mil.|ˈpjuːdʒɪl|
[Prob. f. L. stem pugil-, as in pugilism, etc.]
In full, pugil stick. A short pole with padded ends used as a substitute for a rifle and bayonet in military training. Also attrib. and Comb., as pugil bout, pugil training; pugil-armed adj.
1962Infantry Nov.–Dec. 26/2 Pugil training was first adopted by the Marine Corps... The pugil stick is an oak staff, two inches in diameter, padded on both ends with polyfoam encased in canvas. This stick represents the rifle and is the same length as a rifle with bayonet fixed. Ibid. 26/3 The students engage in pugil bouts, applying all the movements taught in earlier periods with the rifle. Ibid. 28/3 Substitute pugil-armed students for dummies. 1964A. N. Hardin Amer. Bayonet 1776–1964 188 Modern U.S. Marine Corps practice virtually eliminates fencing bayonets by substituting the ‘Pugil Stick’ technique. 1967Britannica Bk. of Year 1966 804/1 Pugil or Pugil stick, a padded club with large rounded ends used in bayonet practice by the military as a substitute for rifle with fixed bayonet. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 28 June 4–b/1 The first of three sergeants..was accused of violating orders in the conduct of the.. pugil stick bouts in which the recruit was pounded into a coma. |