单词 | cudgelling |
释义 | cudgellingn. The action of cudgel v.: a. Beating with a cudgel. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun] waster1519 wastership1575 single billeta1625 cudgels1630 quarterstaff1631 cudgel-playa1635 back-sword1699 cudgel-playing1717 hurlbatting1744 single-stick1771 short-staff1775 cudgelling1787 stick fighting1845 stick play1849 back-swording1857 kendo1921 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1609 |
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