Definition of "cudgelling" []

• Present participle of cudgel. (verb)

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• ""You rascal," said I, "a cudgelling was the upshot of your last."
• "And all the time, deliriously happy, talking in the gentlest and most delicate terms that might not offend her sensitive ears, I was cudgelling my brains in an effort to divine what I was expected to do."
• "Edna nodded carelessly, though inwardly anxious and cudgelling her brains for something to turn the conversation."