Definition of "cudgels" [cudgels]

• Plural form of cudgel. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cudgel. (verb)

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• "This he took for a favour, and so laid down the cudgels, that is to say, the pen; I say, he took if for a favour, and a mighty one it was, if he had known all."
• "On the floor of the Senate, Orrin Hatch of Utah took up the cudgels to berate the president about the Gospels."
• "Not one man but two armed with cudgels have spotted us from the High Street and are sprinting toward the footpath."