cudgellingn.
/ˈkʌdʒəlɪŋ/ The action of cudgel v.:
a. Beating with a cudgel.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 241 Proud of an heroycall cudgeling . View more context for this quotation
1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. v. xiii. 69 There should ha' been a Beating, a lusty Cudgeling.
1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 206/1 A man deserved a cudgelling for writing Leviathan.
b. Cudgel-playing.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun]
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1787 F. Burney Diary 10 Feb. (1842) III. 325 ‘For what were you most famous at School’?.. ‘Cudgelling, sir’.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 50 Fearless he risks that cranium thick At cudgelling and singlestick.
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