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cudgelling, vbl. n.|ˈkʌdʒəlɪŋ| [-ing1.] The action of the verb cudgel: a. Beating with a cudgel; b. Cudgel-playing.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. iii. 249 Proud of an heroicall cudgelling. 1663Cowley Cutter of Coleman St. v. xiii, There should ha' been a Beating, a lusty Cudgeling. 1787F. Burney Diary 10 Feb., For what were you most famous at School?.. Cudgelling, sir. 1827De Quincey Murder Wks. IV. 21 A man deserved a cudgelling for writing ‘Leviathan’. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 50 Fearless he risks that cranium thick At cudgelling and singlestick. |