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Cudgel vs Blackjack - What's the difference?

cudgel | blackjack |

As nouns the difference between cudgel and blackjack

is that cudgel is a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon while blackjack is a common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

As verbs the difference between cudgel and blackjack

is that cudgel is to strike with a cudgel while blackjack is to strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.

cudgel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
  • The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye.
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
  • * Bunyan
  • He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.

    Synonyms

    * club * singlestick

    Verb

  • To strike with a cudgel.
  • The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.
  • To exercise (one's wits or brains).
  • Anagrams

    *

    blackjack

    Alternative forms

    * black jack, black-jack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.
  • (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
  • The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger). In older literature sometimes spelled "black jack".
  • A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered instrument loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings.
  • Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens , such as , in the family Compositae.
  • See also

    * baccarat * bludgeon * cosh * pontoon * truncheon * twenty-one

    Verb

  • To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.